Subject: [decade] storage cost vs bandwidth cost

From: Haibin Song <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:54:26 +0800

The existing problem is that P2P applications consume a lot of traffic in the network. With investing more in bandwidth, you can maybe solve this problem, but maybe at great expense. However, the existing web host and content delivery services are mature businesses, you can enable your own business solutions with providing in-network storage.

What do people on this list think about this trade-off?

Here is one perspective on the relative economics (from Nick Weaver): http://www.tprcweb.com/images/stories/papers/paper.pdf.

09-11-09 
Haibin Song
Rich Woundy