“Apple is snapping up massive amounts of bandwidth – but what is it for?” Daisuke Wakabayashi asks to The Wall Street Journal.
“Apple is making waves in the world of content delivery networks – Internet infrastructure capable of delivering large amounts of data to customers,” Wakabayashi reports. “Apple is buying bandwidth in such bulk that some in the industry believe that the company is laying the groundwork for an upgraded video delivery service.”
“Regardless of its TV plans, the company’s needs for Internet infrastructure continue to grow,” Wakabayashi reports. “The expansion of its iCloud service and growing demand for content from its iTunes and Apps stores are also driving its needs for greater bandwidth.”
Read more in the full article here.
Related article:
Apple quietly building extensive new networks capable of delivering vast amounts of content to customers – February 4, 2014
TV delivery I hope.
Nation-wide ISP with WiFi connectivity. No data plan from cellular phone companies required.
So how do they get the data into the home without dumb pipes? Towers? Satellite?
How about putting finally into work Nikola Tesla technology, a global ether network!!!
I am more interested in what kind of data sources will be available on a wide bandwidth.
The dog days of old cable TV are almost over?
🙌🙌🙌
Please say it’s true. I’m ready to kill Time Warner Cable. (But don’t tell anyone I said so or I may be implicated in their murder!)
Get in line DC! 🙂 I noticed the other night they gave their DVR UI a recent overhaul. Better but what a sluggish nightmare of a system overall. Apple can do better with both hands tied behind their back. Hopefully relief is on the way.
Sources tell me this is part of an effort to relaunch Ping.
Hahahah… that was good! 🙂
:-Q*****
It’s shorter to just type “barf!”
🙂
But isn’t it a cute smiley?
What exactly does “snapping up massive amounts of bandwidth” mean?
There are something like 6 companies that “own” the backbones of the internet which they sell to others. One example is Cox Internet. A company may buy X amount of bandwidth and resell it to others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_backbone
A bit more info. I worked for a company called CariNet. They sold server space (shared or dedicated) and bandwidth to companies and individuals. You could be your own ISP.
Thanks! 🙂
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With my cox account I am “buying” 16mb bandwidth of what they control. I could pay more to buy more of course.
I just seems inefficient for Apple to buy it piecemeal when they have the money to buy one of the sellers. Cox is a 10 billion dollar a year company. Make them an offer they can’t refuse and see how much pressure that would put on others to open up content.
Clearly, it’s so I can spend 6 full days downloading the latest 4K movie. What fun!
You really owe it to yourself to retire the 56k dial-up modem. A typical 4k resolution movie weighs in at less than 100GB.
4K content coming soon, they’re gonna need all the pipes they can get! Anyone who’s a little dubious about 4K should know that youtube is already allowing uploading and streaming 4K.
C’mon Apple search engine.
Just don’t base it on the search engine at Apple’s website, which is perennially crap. I use Google instead and look for hit’s at Apple. It’s FAR superior, sad to say.
you’re right, it does suck.
All the server space and bandwidth in the world isn’t going to help so long as local cable monopolies have a chokehold on the ‘last mile’ connecting the Internet backbone to endusers. I have a 3.5 MB connection if it isn’t raining, and I’m not alone.
Correction: it’s sunny today, but kids in the neighborhood are on the Web doing their homework, so my WiFi is getting 588 Kb down and 88 up.
Buy Cox. They have an internet backbone.
But buying Coccyx for backbone would be kick-ass.
tailbone.
Again, backbone isn’t the bottleneck. Apple has plenty of servers and can buy all the backbone capacity it could ever use. How does it get the data to the users past the local cable and telephone monopolies?
If you own a sixth (all figures approximate) of the nationwide bandwidth AND the Cox user base, you have significant bargaining power. 6 million current subscribers and the power to recruit an untold number of smaller companies to join the “borg” and put pressure on AT&T, Time Warner, Charter and others. And still Apple would have over 100 billion in the bank.
When you own the bandwidth, it has to be less expensive than buying it piecemeal. Isn’t obtaining bandwidth the point of this whole article?
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