[171945] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Fri May 16 16:07:13 2014
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Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:06:58 -0700
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: Scott Helms <khelms@zcorum.com>
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Scott Helms wrote:
> Mike,
>
> In my experience you're not alone, just in a really tiny group. As I
> said I have direct eyeballs on ~500k devices and the ability to see
> another 10 million anytime I want and the percentage of people who cap
> their upstream in both of those sample groups for more than 15 minutes
> (over the last 3 years) is about 0.2%. Interestingly if a customer does
> it once they have about a 70% chance of doing it regularly.
Well, given Sling, Dropbox, iCloud, pervasive video calls (you have heard about webrtc, yes?
24/7 babycams!), youtube, etc, etc, I won't be a "tiny group" for long.
Mike
