While it is true that a single fiber could theoretically server all 44 million Netflix customers, consider the cost of splitting that traffic out to them...even if they were sitting on top of each other in a skyscraper capable of housing 44 million people. Then consider the end to end cost of distributing that traffic to reality.
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While it is true that a single fiber could theoretically server all 44 million Netflix customers, consider the cost of splitting that traffic out to them...even if they were sitting on top of each other in a skyscraper capable of housing 44 million people. Then consider the end to end cost of distributing that traffic to reality.