By Tim Ferguson
Published: Monday 28 January 2008
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Name
Rob
Location
Cambridge
Occupation
Engineer
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I always thought that it was limited international bandwidth that mainly caused congestion and expense for ISPs
For UK ISPs where is the bottleneck going to occur? They can peer with the BBC in London.
If for ADSL users the major contention is at the local exchanges then I wonder if local storage (i.e. a CDN pushed out to the larger exchanges) might help. The BBC have a limited range of programs on iplayer - possibly no more than a few Tb that could be multi-cast to distribution points.
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