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Dear Michael; On Jan 7, 2007, at 8:18 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Most of the video sites I know of in detail or have researched do not use Akamai or other local caching services. (Youtube uses Limelight for delivery, for example, as AFAIKT they do no caching outside of that network. Certainly, the Youtube video I have looked at here through tcpdump and traceroute seems to transit the network.) And P2P services like BitTorrent do not conserve network bandwidth. (Although, they might in the future.) What does save network bandwidth is progressive download; if people actually look at what they downloading, they may stop it in progress if they don't want it. (I know I do.) --Michael Dillon
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