[54959] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Jan 22 12:59:28 2003
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:58:57 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Al Rowland <alan_r1@corp.earthlink.net>
Cc: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Al Rowland wrote:
>Not to mention that fact that 99.99% of current consumer connections are
>not up to the task. Standard full-screen video digital stream is ~6Mbps,
>HDTV requires 19.4Mbps. Don't know many consumers with T3s. ;)
>
>
VDSL or ADSL2+ would cut it, until fiber to the curb gets the norm. However
many school/university dorms and new housing developments are well
networked
already so high bandwidth consumer connectivity exists in large numbers.
(where did you think the KaZaa supernodes and DirectConnect hubs are?)
Pete
