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Originally Posted by willravel
Just out of curiosity, what do you think will be done to fix web traffic issues that we're heading into in order to make widespread movie downloading (at the same rate as rentals were 10 years ago) plausible?
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One of the last MTV projects I worked on was direct delivery of video to itunes, google video, amazon, akamai and the rest. Akamai has great distribution points around the world and have been working on delievery subsystems just like this basing the future of direct downloads.
It was a simply delivery system, very fast technology but still using public internet infrastructure with secure tunnels. This was direct point to point.
Then you think of the torrent solutions, for WoW, HL2, and other large delivery applications, it makes sense to use digital delivery versus boxes and trucks. It eliminates the largest costs of delivery and distribution.
The infrastructure bottleneck point right now is your 100b routers and cable box limitations. Fios is a start, but even uncapping cable to higher throughput, gigabit will reduce the strains tremendously since a 1Gb file will be not even a minute to d/l.
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