[186791] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix stuffing data on pipe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Jan 4 14:33:56 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <A34E1C34-4E93-4FEF-8184-4A8EE5285C9B@fiberphone.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 11:32:50 -0800
To: Pete Mundy <pete@fiberphone.co.nz>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
The most obvious things would be to make feedback faster=E2=80=A6 =
Implement congestion controls further
up stream with reduced buffering throughout the network, selective =
technologies like WRED, etc.
As RS said, sure, but all come at a cost either in performance, =
equipment, support, or some
combination thereof.
Owen
> On Jan 4, 2016, at 00:11 , Pete Mundy <pete@fiberphone.co.nz> wrote:
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> Very succiently put, Owen!
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> I concur.
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> Is anything the ISP could avoid =08to alleviate this occurrence, or is =
it entirely a 'server-side' issue to resolve?
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> Pete
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>> On 4/01/2016, at 8:42 pm, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
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>> As I understand it, the problem being discussed is an oscillation =
that is created when the reaction occurs faster than the feedback =
resulting in a series of dynamically increasing overcompensations.
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>> Owen
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