[171909] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Fri May 16 11:30:24 2014
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From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
To: Scott Helms <khelms@zcorum.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 17:26:14 +0200
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On Friday, May 16, 2014 05:08:33 PM Scott Helms wrote:
> Social media is not a big driver of symmetrical traffic
> here in the US or internationally. Broadband suffers
> here for a number of reasons, mainly topological and
> population density, in comparison to places like Japan,
> parts (but certainly not all) of Europe, and South
> Korea.
It might not be (now), but if symmetrical bandwidth will go=20
in on the back of teenagers wanting to upload videos about=20
their lives, the meer fact that the bandwidth is there means=20
someone will find bigger and better use for it, than social=20
media.
We saw this when we deployed FTTH in Malaysia, back in '09.
Mark.
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