[144144] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?utf-8?B?TcOlbnM=?= Nilsson)
Sat Sep 3 11:04:30 2011
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 17:03:52 +0200
From: =?utf-8?B?TcOlbnM=?= Nilsson <mansaxel@besserwisser.org>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Subject: Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers? Date: Sat, Sep =
03, 2011 at 10:17:40AM -0400 Quoting Jay Ashworth (jra@baylink.com):
> Gambling means that sometimes you lose. Alas, the costs won't be on
> Apple.
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> This seems to be an ongoing situation: carriers discovering that they
> also bet wrong on how to engineer the network: they've been making the=20
> beams thinner and thinner, and then along came something reasonably
> rational... that was heavy enough to break them.
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> Anyone betting carriers will stop gambling quite so hard, and build=20
> networks the way John Roebling built bridges?
Well put.=20
I find it hard to blame the users for using the network. That is what
they pay the provider for. Any implicit assumptions about _how_ users
should use the network are simply corners cut to make things cheaper.=20
Gambling.=20
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M=C3=A5ns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina
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JAPAN is a WONDERFUL planet -- I wonder if we'll ever reach their level
of COMPARATIVE SHOPPING ...
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