[144193] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Wheeler)
Sun Sep 4 20:36:41 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110904204529.GA89120@typo.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 20:35:32 -0400
From: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Wayne E Bouchard <web@typo.org> wrote:
> Okay, so to state the obvious for those who missed the point...
>
> The congestion will either be directly in front of user because
> they're flooding their uplink or towards the destination (beit a
> single central network or a set of storage clusters housed at, say, 6
> different locations off 3 different providers.) It is very hard, in my
If scaling up Internet bandwidth were the hardest thing about
deploying SaaS / "cloud" services, don't you think transit vendors
would suddenly be more profitable than EMC and friends? It should be
obvious to you, and everyone else, that datacenter Internet
connectivity is a trivial concern compared to everything else that
goes into these platforms.
--=20
Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
Sr Network Operator=A0 /=A0 Innovative Network Concepts
