[171911] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri May 16 11:37:35 2014
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Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:35:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <201405161702.03926.mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
> While that is true a lot of the time (especially for eyeball
> networks), it is less so now due to social media. Social
> media forces the use of symmetric bandwidth (like FTTH),
> putting even more demand on the network,
Oh yes; clearly, Twitter will be the end of L3.
:-)
Could you expand a bit, Mark on "Social media forces the use of symmetric
bandwidth"? Which social media platform is it that you think has a)
symmetrical flows that b) are big enough to figure into transit symmetry?
Cheers,
-- jra
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