[142345] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Wed Jun 22 19:20:15 2011
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E027585.5040601@mompl.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:19:16 -0700
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:06 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> Owen DeLong wrote:
>> 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.
>=20
> I hope for the latter. It just pains me to think how to do this with =
existing techniques in use.
Not only will it happen but it will cost less per byte delivered than =
the other distribution methods and enable applications that aren't =
simply broadcast one to many.
Geoff had a presentation a couple of years ago that projected the cost =
per byte that was necessary to make the growth projection pan out =
economically out a decade or two to the right if I recall, we get to =
build that.=
