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Re:Netflix's Ken Florance: The Man Who Keeps the Video Strea... by twoodfin on Friday July 25, 2014 @01:53PM (#8086463)
Everyone pretty much agrees that traffic over the ISP's internal networks aren't really an issue

Everyone agrees with this? How did we get to that conclusion? Netflix is 1/3 of primetime internet traffic. If they double their average bitrate * average viewing audience in, say, two years, that won't be a problem for ISPs' internal networks? They're that over-provisioned?

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Re:Netflix's Ken Florance: The Man Who Keeps the Video Strea... by dtparr on Friday July 25, 2014 @03:37PM (#8087194)
Obviously, you can't say something that broad for all ISPs in all locations. But in a recent dispute Verizon posted a graphic[1] showing that the max average peak utilization in their network was 65% of capacity. So if Netflix is 1/3 of that (say 22% capacity) and it doubles their average bitrate to all customers, it would still not saturate the link.

[1] http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/verizo...

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