[140461] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 foot-dragging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Wed May 11 14:49:13 2011
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:48:53 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0C9E31E3@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 5/11/11 11:39 AM, George Bonser wrote:
> It depends. There are other things to take into account. If you
> increase the time it takes a mobile device to complete a transaction by
> only a couple of seconds, if you multiply those couple of seconds by
> all of the users in a large metro area, you end up with devices
> increased use of network resources (and increased battery drain on the
> devices themselves). Anything that can be done to speed transactions up
> and get those transmitters shut off as quickly as possible is a win. If
> you don't have a lot of mobile clients hitting your site, then maybe
> that isn't a problem. Every network has their own set of resources and
> their own set of challenges and all of that has to fit within the
> network architecture they have deployed and their business model.
So in our environment reducing the load time on an application by a
couple seconds nets out to several human lifetimes a month, so people
count seconds and fractions of seconds like they're precious.
> Basically, there is no "magic bullet".
indeed, it has to be applied systemically.
>
>
