[142341] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Wed Jun 22 19:07:46 2011
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:06:45 -0700
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <151F0730-9105-4043-85FA-625D7CE583AB@delong.com>
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Owen DeLong wrote:
> If you don't believe that consumer content acquisition is shifting away from traditional methods towards internet-oriented mechanisms rapidly, you haven't been paying attention to the bandwidth growth at Netflix as just one example. Hulu, Youtube, and even the various networks own web-based episode streaming services are all additional examples that cannot be ignored.
For the record I do believe that.
> We're going to have to either find a way to convince consumers to change direction, or, we're going to have to develop new methods and techniques that will scale to fully replace antennas, satellite, and cable because that's what consumers are starting to do.
I hope for the latter. It just pains me to think how to do this with
existing techniques in use.
Greetings,
Jeroen
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