[140706] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed May 18 10:51:42 2011
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:47:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <m262p8p4n9.wl%randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
> > Since a good number of us get paid for delivering bits, isn't this a
> > good thing?
>
> at layer eight, having a single very large customer can be a source of
> unhappy surprises.
I have first hand experience, having been laid off from my last IT
director job because such a monopsony customer yanked 3/5 of its business
from my then employer.
Or ask *hundreds* of 35 year old companies that used to produce, nearly
exclusively, lots of specialized, flight certified parts for the Space
Shuttle Program.
Cheers,
-- jra
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