Cringely on P2P vs Streaming Data Centers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday February 25, 2006 @11:24AM from the next-olympics-to-be-streamed dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Robert X Cringely is postulating today that as bandwidth applications grow, the data centers will never be ready to serve 30 million concurrent streams of data. Akamai, with its tens of thousands of servers spread in an intelligent topology, still can't serve more than 150,000 concurrent streams, which is never going to impress the TV network exec used to audiences in the millions. Cringely choruses that secure P2P is the solution to delivering not only high quality video but also to audiences that scale in the millions. BitTorrent seems to have worn out it's welcome with the MPAA recently, so maybe the future holds P2P networks owned and managed by Hollywood?"

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Figures by Kawahee · 2006-02-25 11:32 · Score: 5, Insightful

"Akamai, with its tens of thousands of servers spread in an intelligent topology, still can't serve more than 150,000 concurrent streams"

Assuming Akamai has only 10,000 servers, that's 15 streams per server. C'mon now, we're not that stupid.

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Akamai embellishment by artemis67 · 2006-02-25 11:51 · Score: 5, Insightful

The Akamai figures are the embellishment of the submitter... Cringely doesn't mention Akamai anywhere in the article.