[76491] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Halo 2 and broadband traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Dec 12 15:19:08 2004
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:16:22 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Bob Snyder <rsnyder@toontown.erial.nj.us>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041208185057.GA31524@toontown.erial.nj.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Bob Snyder wrote:
> And oddly enough, Sandvine offers a box that does this! :-) They're
>
>jumping on the press coverage of Halo 2 to try and raise awareness of
>their product line. Not that what's being said doesn't have merit, but
>it's definately a PR push, and definately not a "End of the net
>predicted, film at 11" moment.
>
>
To quote Daniel Golding from a few months ago, one of my favourite ones:
>It has become trendy, in some circles, to lament the Internet's poor
>performance/congestion/non-deterministic nature/lack of security/<insert
>issue here>. After firmly denouncing the Internet, the company or individual
>then touts their product, which will fix/replace/augment the Internet.
It's somewhat longer road without making the tabloid headlines, but I'd
be happy to introduce interested parties to solutions we feel are
elegant and seamlessly fit operational practises of ISPs.
Pete
