YouTube's Bandwidth Bill May be Zero 188
MrShaggy writes "Credit Suisse made headlines this summer when it estimated that YouTube was costing Google a half a billion dollars in 2009 as it streamed 75 billion videos. But a new report from Arbor Networks suggests that even though Google is approaching 10 percent of the net's traffic, it's got so much fiber optic cable it is simply trading traffic, with no payment involved, with the net's largest ISPs. 'I think Google's transit costs are close to zero,' said Craig Labovitz, the chief scientist for Arbor Networks and a longtime internet researcher. Arbor Networks, which sells network monitoring equipment used by about 70 percent of the net's ISPs, likely knows more about the net's ebbs and flows than anyone outside of the National Security Agency."
Re:Payments are not the only costs. (Score:4, Funny)
maintaining fiber? What do you think they have to actually maintain?
Don't they have to polish the ends to ensure faster data throughput?
Re:So much data (Score:5, Funny)
.05Mbps = 50kbps. Sound familiar? He means dial-up! I'll be here all week for simple math help.
Re:Payments are not the only costs. (Score:2, Funny)
Don't they have to polish the ends to ensure faster data throughput?
Not if they buy nice shiny Monster Cables.
Re:This was shocking to me (Score:4, Funny)
Funny thing about your second pic is if you look at the label on the power supply(?) on the left side of the image, the tag reads:
Safety Test Pending
Re:This was shocking to me (Score:5, Funny)
So, even their power supplies are in perpetual beta!
Monster Cable (Score:1, Funny)
maintaining fiber? What do you think they have to actually maintain?
Don't they have to polish the ends to ensure faster data throughput?
Monster or Denon will happily sell them a gold-plated optical fibre cable that doesn't need polishing.