[14722] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Thu Jan 22 22:34:59 1998
X-Envelope-To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 22:28:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net>
To: Dean Morstad <dean@spacestar.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980122192802.13147A-100000@pixie.spacestar.net>
> This may be very true, but I have questions about how the Internet
> is going to handle a bunch of ordinary web surfers now demanding their web
> pages at 30 times the speed? Is there backbone infrastructure in place to
> provide this kind of access on a household basis? Where is Microsoft
> going to find enough peering from NSP's to provide this access to their
> customers? I think it would be safe to assume that they probably have
This usage can be sustained easily by using proxy/cache implementations
similar to those of the cable modem ISP's. After all, most of the
bandwidth usage will come from http traffic most likely.
Regarding the NSP, consider this:
UUNet provides dialup pool connectivity for MSN. Microsoft owns a
nice chunk of UUNet. UUNet is/will soon be implementing xDSL (IDSL and
SDSL to be exact). UUNet is a big monster, and will only grow
bigger ("If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em")... Microsoft will be
introducing xDSL access.
...and draw your own conclusions. :)
