10.28
A few weeks ago, Wired had an article that said Google was likely using YouTube’s massive traffic to make peering contracts with Tier 1 ISPs. These peering contracts would effectively make Google’s bandwidth bill for YouTube equal to zero.
For more information on the topic I recommend listening to “The Future of the Internet: Lecture 2:TCI, IP, and the Alphabet Soup” by Ramesh Johari of Stanford University on iTunes U. (Start at 1:02:00 for an explanation of how the underlying contracts of ISPs work.)
If you’ve got 8 hours, I would recommend listening to the whole lecture series. There are about 8 hours of lectures and several corresponding .pdf to follow along with The Future of the Internet. iTunes U has free class lectures from Stanford and several other highly regarded educational institutions. Go get your learn on!
No Comment.
Add Your Comment