Commentüs on: STRUCTURE 08: CTO Infinera — Video Swamping Net, Optical Can Help

By: Infinera CTO: Video Swamping Net, Optical Can Help « NewTeeVee

Infinera CTO: Video Swamping Net, Optical Can Help « NewTeeVee — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:05:15 +0000

[...] and live-blogging all day), Drew Perkins, the CTO of optical transport equipment maker Infinera, tells us his company is having to rapidly scale its technology as the Internet grows. What’s driving the [...]

By: Tim Wood

Tim Wood — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:33:26 +0000

While I guess he might be technically right, my understanding is that the currently accepted answer is peer-to-peer file sharing. When people talk about video over the internet, it’s _usually_ understood that they’re talking about video that’s sent directly to a viewer program (usually by a streaming or as flash). Those two things (peer-to-peer file sharing and video) have very different characteristics and place very different demands on a network. Needless to say Perkin’s statement (at least as relayed on gigaom) is at best misleading and some editorial comment would have been very helpful.

By: GigaGuy

GigaGuy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:24:21 +0000

Luckily ISPs like Comcast have already testing 100Gbps optics in their network (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080312-comcast-to-beef-up-network-with-new-100gbps-optics.html) and are preparing for this change over.

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Live Coverage of Structure 08 - GigaOM — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:46:58 +0000

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