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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 from 2006 it had cost them close to 4 million a month back then. Youtube and services like that have to invest a lot in their infrastructure before they can really launch their service and though using shared Content delivery networks is not ideal, its probably not a bad deal. In Youtube's case, it helped them survive until Google bought it out. Newer Internet television service providers, however need not build their services around the traditional CDN model. Joost Network architecture presentation from Colm MacCarthaigh is an interesting example to discuss to prove my point. Joost was founded by the same guys who founded Kazaa and Skype . Kazaa was one of notorious