[168495] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Neighborhood mesh statistical multiplexing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Jan 27 12:19:31 2014
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:19:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
> > Unless I misread the piece, Pat, they *do* intend for customers to
> > mesh non-Telefonica links, which is half of your answer.
>
> I guess we read it differently.
>
> They even mention "Telefonica is currently looking towards developing
> economies and its huge customer base".
>
> Finally, assuming they ask someone else to do this, can you imagine
> another network saying "sure, use my DSL link to make your customer
> happier..."?
Nope, sure can't.
> > "All our customers are at max rate for their distance" is probably
> > the other half.
>
> Thought about that, but they discuss customers on different tariffs.
>
> It might be useful when everyone is limited to 128 Kbps or something.
>
>
> > I was making the former assumption in my musing.
>
> You know what you do when you make an assumption, right? You make an
> ASS out of U and MPTION. :)
Thank you, Tony Randall. :-)
(You know, I can't find an earlier citation for that riff than the Odd
Couple episode...)
Cheers,
-- jra
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