[173234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Jul 21 14:42:10 2014
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:36:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Jason Iannone
> <jason.iannone@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Seems like as good at time as any for Netflix to go distributed peer
> > to peer.
>
> Sure, because what paying customer would object to his vendor
> consuming his bandwidth to service other customers and what content
> provider would object to storing their content for redistribution on
> random client machines?
Well, Radio Paradise, which uses Octoshape for precisely this.
But they're admittedly a special case. Still, Octoshape does seem to be
staying in business...
Cheers,
-- jra
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