Tag: Bandwidth

Google's big bandwidth acquisitions

Tags: Robert Cringely + Google + Bandwidth

MarcoPolo
Posted by MarcoPolo 1 year 10 months ago; via glinden.blogspot.com/2007...

Robert Cringely's latest column, "When Being a Verb is Not Enough", looks at the massive bandwidth rights and data centers Google has acquired.

Google controls more network fiber than any other organization. This is not to say that Google OWNS all that fiber, just that they control it through agreements with network operators.

Google is building a LOT of data centers. The company appears to be as attracted to cheap and reliable electric power as it is to population proximity.

Of course this doesn't answer the question why Google needs...

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YouTube Growing ... Like Cancer?

Tags: YouTube + lawsuits + bandwidth + servers + Chad Hurley + Steve Chen

Motu
Posted by Motu 2 years 2 months ago; via businessweek.com/magazine...

The video-sharing Web site is a runaway success -- everywhere but on the bottom line.

With all the excitement, it's easy to forget that the video-sharing pioneer's business so far amounts to a whole lot of expenses, not much revenue, and no profits. YouTube took on the job of creating the business model for a new medium where anyone can post any video. While it's starting to develop new ad offerings, its popularity is driving up costs that established Web giants, such as Google and Yahoo!, are able to spread out. YouTube spends a tidy, and...

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