YouTube: 4% of Comcasts Bandwidth.
Staci at paidContent points to comments made by Comcast’s chairman and CEO Brian Roberts during Thursday’s earnings call.
“Streaming video over the Internet is a great driver of the growth of high-speed Internet. I don’t think there’s any coincidence that we had our strongest year in high-speed Internet and the growth of video on the Internet. People are attracted to it more, it’s easier, it’s fun, and the kind of things that people are doing online continue to be the YouTubes of the world, I think I saw a statistic that 4 percent of all the bits going across high-speed Internet lines at Comcast is YouTube. We don’t view that as a bad thing. We view that as a great thing in terms of the core video business versus a differentiated broadband business.”
That’s an amazing statistic: 4 percent just for YouTube traffic.
It’s no wonder that there is now concern over the Internet’s infrastructure being over run by too much data. YouTube and BitTorrent pwn the Net. Will we run out like so many are saying. Or will Google save us like Cringely says.
February 6th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
I hope there are no plans from Comcast to try and wring extra revenue out of that 4%. Protect your net neutrality. Water providers don’t get a cut of revenue from diamond mines, ISPs should not be able to skim revenue off of others.
March 17th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
If you think this is bad… Just think of what happen when IPTV starts rolling all over the internet! It consumes much more bandwidth per minute and since it is TV, you could be watching it all day. High speed internet might get not so fast anymore.
Thats why I am getting T1 to be prepared for the IPTV invasion
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