YouTube paid $10-15/megabit Bechtel paid $500/megabit WHAT BECHTEL LEARNED: It was more than volume discounts from telecom vendors that got YouTube its lower costs. YouTube locates its data centers in places where there’s already a lot of bandwidth, so they don’t have to pay as much for infrastructure. Source: Bechtel’s New Benchmarks’, CIO Magazine, October [...]
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Benchmark – cost of bandwidth
Posted in bandwidth, tagged bandwidth, bechtel, cost, youtube on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
