[162991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue May 14 20:51:40 2013
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <7168021.5530.1368551211969.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 20:51:20 -0400
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On May 14, 2013, at 13:06 , Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> Or I don't. Which is not completely impossible.
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> In this piece:
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> =
http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/netflix-puts-even-more-strain-on-the-=
internet-1200480561/
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> they suggest that Akamai and other ISP-side caching is either not
> affecting these numbers and their pertinence to the "backbone" at all,
> or not much.
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> Did they miss something? or did I?
I don't see the word "backbone" in there, other than in the comments.
Your DSL line is part of the Internet, and doing more traffic puts more =
"strain" (FSVO "strain") on that link, even if the server is colocated =
with the cable head end.
So I don't see the problem here. But then, maybe I'm the one who is =
confused? :)
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TTFN,
patrick
