[145646] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Fri Oct 14 07:14:52 2011
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Nikolay Shopik <shopik@inblock.ru>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:15:09 +0000
In-Reply-To: <j78ub9$4ee$1@dough.gmane.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nikolay Shopik [mailto:shopik@inblock.ru]
> Sent: 14 October 2011 10:17
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide
>=20
> On 13/10/11 19:56, Jared Mauch wrote:
> > Rebuilding this trust can take some time. I do expect that with the
> iMessage stuff that was released yesterday (SMS/MMSoIP to email/phone#)
> many more companies will shift to using that instead as the value of
> BBM is decreased.
> >
> > I also wonder what the impact of iMessage and others will be on
> places like hotel networks as the devices camp out longer/more often on
> the wifi, etc. We observed the impact to a hotel of the NANOG crowd
> this week (i wonder if there will be lessons learned on the part of
> lodgenet, etc?)
>=20
> If we talking about iMessage as replace of BBM, that's probably fine,
> but it's really niche market.
> I was really expecting them to release that stuff and allow desktop
> users to chat with idevice and making iMessage s2s(XMPP) compatible, so
> anyone could chat with idevice, even not supporting all fancy features,
> but at least dumb texting.
My iThings camp on WiFi all the time anyway as they are waiting for push u=
pdates, checking mail etc.
Of course, all these little things add up and add to the total network tra=
ffic (and port counts for NAT)so they all take a toll on networks.
I agree though, I would have liked to have seen iMessage cross platform. O=
ne of the great things about Skype is that I can talk from PeeCee to MAC t=
o iThing to whatever..
--
Leigh
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