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That powerpoint deck is awful. So video is an increasing percentage of internet bandwidth - so what? Price/performance of bandwidth is improving exponentially

That powerpoint deck is awful. So video is an increasing percentage of internet bandwidth - so what? Price/performance of bandwidth is improving exponentially. It's unsurprising that non-video bandwidth isn't increasing as fast as video, since video is automatically big (and easy to make bigger: just move up to higher resolution) whereas "normal" traffic only gets bigger when users create more stuff. This increasing percentage doesn't say anything about increasing backbone costs, even though the graphs are meant to imply that it does.

josh2600 14y ago
That deck was done by a research group and yes I think it is intended to imply that the network costs increase as volume over the network increases. While this is implicitly true, I agree that there isn't an explicit relationship, BUT it was interesting how dramatic the growth of video has been and how much of the network is video. You do agree that carriers are moving more data than they ever have before, a fact which repeats itself daily. I'm not necessarily arguing that ISPs should be able to charge more for video, only that there is more usage on there network which may or may not impact their backbone costs. You are correct that the implied linkage is misleading, but I wouldn't call the deck "awful". It's just a viewpoint, and it does provide some useful context/information.