iBeam tried to do that. If only they had used something else than Windows Server and other Microsoft products to do the caching.
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Aled Morris <al...@qix.co.uk> wrote: > On 13 July 2014 06:39, Steven Tardy <sjt5a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > (OK, Keep 100mbps for Netflix to pre-populate, 100mbps is 30TB/month) > > (Now I'm curious how many GB/month Netflix pre-populates, hmmm) > > > > Shame Netflix can't fill their appliances using really cheap, bulk, one-way > satellite bandwidth which is useless for most other Internet applications. > Then their traffic wouldn't use any of your real, paid for, transit. > > Of course siting a dish would be another expense with hosting one of their > boxes, but if it made the on-going costs go away... > > Aled > -- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-396-1764 You can find my resume at: http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html
