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by agscala 3946 days ago
No, that's actually 0.8 Mb/s
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Yes, per person. At 50 million users, you need a 35 Tbps pipe to take in all that data.
That can conceivably be split across multiple datacenters in multiple countries - something which Microsoft almost certainly has access to.
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.

1. http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2015/07/windows-10-launch-hug...