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agscala
3946 days ago
No, that's actually 0.8 Mb/s
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hirsin
3946 days ago
Yes, per person. At 50 million users, you need a 35 Tbps pipe to take in all that data.
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yellowapple
3945 days ago
That can conceivably be split across multiple datacenters in multiple countries - something which Microsoft almost certainly has access to.
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hirsin
3945 days ago
Even breaking it across multiple datacenters you're still hardpressed to do those speeds over a short period (weeks), let alone constantly over time [1]. My point was the physics in the parent don't work.
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http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2015/07/windows-10-launch-hug...
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