[163992] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: net neutrality and peering wars continue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Sat Jun 22 17:03:46 2013
In-Reply-To: <51C5F5B1.4050701@tonal.clara.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:03:15 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Neil Harris <neil@tonal.clara.co.uk>wrote:
> On 22/06/13 16:34, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
>> That's easily solved by padding the ACK to 1500 bytes as well.
>>>>
>>>> Matt
>>>>
>>>> Or indeed by the media player sending large amounts of traffic back to
>>> the CDN via auxiliary HTTP POST requests?
>>>
>>> Neil
>>>
>>> That would assume that the client has symmetrical upstream bandwidth
>> over which to send such datagrams. At least in the US, that is the
>> exception, not the rule.
>>
>> Owen
>>
>>
> Hi Owen,
>
> You only need to match the video stream bandwidth, not the full download
> speed of the link.
>
Nah. For peering purposes, you only need to match half the video
stream bandwidth to be within compliance. Generating 2.5M back
upstream in response to a 5M video stream would be more than
sufficient to keep the ratio-watchers happy.
Matt
