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Re: SkyCache/Cidera replacement?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Sep 20 17:40:36 2004

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:39:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040920152649.T15598@ubzr.zsa.bet>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote:

> remember exactly).  The point is that the Usenet feed ended up throttled
> at ~25mbps(?).  If you don't care about binaries of various descriptions,
> you can still stuff a full feed through a very small pipe (a pair of T1s
> should be more than sufficient.

IIRC, our transceiver's switch port hovered right around 28mbps.  The
trouble with a non-binaries feed is most of the ISP customers who know
what usenet is want it for the binaries.

Now...if there were napster for pr0n, then abpe would be unnecessary :)

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