[144145] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Sat Sep 3 11:33:27 2011
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
To: Skeeve Stevens <Skeeve@eintellego.net>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 15:32:49 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CA883C31.2D5E0%skeeve@eintellego.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I think the effect will be limited unless Apple give alot more space away f=
or free. there arny many iphones/pads/pods with just 5GB
Neil
On 3 Sep 2011, at 12:22, "Skeeve Stevens" <Skeeve@eintellego.net> wrote:
> Hey all,
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> I've been thinking about the impact that iCloud (by Apple) will have on t=
he Internet.
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> My guess is that 99% of consumer internet access is Asymmetrical (DSL, Ca=
ble, wireless, etc) and iCloud when launched will 'upload' obscene amounts =
of gigs of music, tv, backups, email, photos, documents/data and so on to t=
heir data centres.
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> Now, don't misunderstand me, I love the concept of iCloud, as I do DropBo=
x, but from an Access Providers perspective, I'm thinking this might be a '=
bad thing'.
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> From what I can see there are some key issues:
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> * Users with plans that count upload and download together.
> * The speed of Asymmetric tail technology such as DSL
> * The design of access provider backhaul (from DSLAM to core) metrics
> * The design of some transit metrics
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> So basically the potential issue is that a large residential provider cou=
ld have thousands of users connect to iCloud, their connections slowed beca=
use of uploading data, burning their included bandwidth caps, slowing down =
the backhaul segment of the network, and as residential providers are mostl=
y download, some purchase transit from their upstreams in an symmetric fash=
ion.
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> This post is really just to prompt discussion if people think there is an=
ything to actually worry about, or there are other implications that I've n=
ot really thought of yet.
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> =85Skeeve
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