Youtube is said to be pushing about 25 petabytes per month which is about 77 Gbps sustained data rate on an average. The bandwidth usage at the peaks would be even higher. Thanks to Limelight networks, Youtube doesn’t really need to scale or provision for that kind of bandwidth and based on the some reports [...]

There was a major skype outage last week and though there is an “official explaination” and other discussions about it floating around, I found this comment from one of the GigaOm readers more interesting to think about. Now this particular description may not accurately describe the problem (which might be speculation as well) but it [...]