« Fun With ETFs | Main | Why Have a Biotech Venture Fund? »
Latest Stories
- Excel Wankers and Recession Averages
- Sorry, New York is Closed. Check Back Later.
- Catching Falling 2009 Earnings Estimate Knife
- Survivorship Bias in Global Markets
- Talking Positions on a Lazy-ish Retirement Portfolio
March 20, 2007
Comparing Cost of Internet Video Distribution
From the latest draft of Bill Norton's excellent paper, presented at APRICOT 2007, on how video on the Internet is the next disruption of the U.S. peering ecosystem:
The kicker, however, comes at the close:
Peer2Peer distribution for Internet Videos is by far the least expensive to the Video Service Provider, but it accomplishes this by moving almost all of the distribution costs to the last mile providers.
Sphere It
| 
Digg it
| 
Bookmark it
| 
Stumble it
| 
Facebook it
nice find pk!
That's quite a kicker. I hadn't thought of it quite that way, but he is right.
Parand -- Yeah, that was my reaction too. It's always nice to have someone remind that you costs don't always disappear from systems; sometimes they're just transferred to a less visible place.
Bob Cringeley recently has been writing very interesting columns on the ramifications of all this:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/
This was a an interesting paper but it has been out for some time. I wrote my own thoughts on it back in Feb and have my own thoughts on how the last mile guys get the last laugh.
http://nyquistcapital.com/2007/02/05/transit-bandwidth-inflation/