Netflix's 10 Year Sustained Bandwidth is 200 Gigabits Per Second

[peter123]

http://www.ryanmcintyre.com/blog/archives/2009/04/netflixs-10-yea.php

[bigmac]

This article is reminiscent of Tanenbaum's famous quote from Computer Networks: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." Stating the concept of bandwidth in that way was particularly illuminating for me.

How do these numbers compare to the big CDN's like Akamai?

[Dobbs → bigmac]

Its a good way to look at bandwidth if you don't need low latency.