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Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP Network

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Wed May 14 04:25:30 2014

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:29:30 +0200
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On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 09:04:11 AM Jean-Francois Mezei=20
wrote:

> The problem with the internet is that while it had
> promises of wild growth in the 90s and 00s, once
> penetration reaches a certain level, growth stabilizes.

That depends on your point-of-view and/or interpretation of=20
"growth".

In the last several years, networks have been adding more=20
capacity than they have customers. I suppose, for a number=20
of operators now, growth is in bandwidth, which is non-
linear to customer growth.

Mark.

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