Re:YouTube's Fine - Analysts Don't Understand Internet Peering
by krakensden on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @10:10PM
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Can anyone find the original Credit-Suisse article? Are their estimates based on pure ISP costs, or do they incorporate the cost of running the infrastructure to serve that content?
Assuming he's right about Google's data transfer costs (I... know next to nothing about how the backbones operate), the amount of Google infrastructure dedicated to running Youtube can't be that cheap. That's a huge amount of data, that needs to be distributed to all their various local data centers, plus developers working full time on the project, etc.
I guess what I'm saying is, just because it's easy to want the bean counters to be wrong, doesn't mean they are.
One of the articles linked to from the main article says Credit Suisse estimated Google's bandwith at 30 million megabits/second. At google appengine prices, that would cost ~ $440 per second (I'm assuming non-SI units). Presumably google's real costs are much lower than that, but still...
Assuming he's right about Google's data transfer costs (I... know next to nothing about how the backbones operate), the amount of Google infrastructure dedicated to running Youtube can't be that cheap. That's a huge amount of data, that needs to be distributed to all their various local data centers, plus developers working full time on the project, etc.
I guess what I'm saying is, just because it's easy to want the bean counters to be wrong, doesn't mean they are.
One of the articles linked to from the main article says Credit Suisse estimated Google's bandwith at 30 million megabits/second. At google appengine prices, that would cost ~ $440 per second (I'm assuming non-SI units). Presumably google's real costs are much lower than that, but still...