[79156] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Vint Cerf Says Symmetry is Beautiful"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Thu Mar 31 12:00:13 2005
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:59:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050331.075426.7076.144861@webmail15.lax.untd.com>
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> Cerf Says Symmetry is Beautiful
Of course, from a technical point of view I am all for symmetrical
connections as well.
From a commercial perspective I think that it's hard to recouperate cost
from a 10 meg symmetrical connection when the customer is running p2p and
is using most of that bw 24/7 and is only paying $40 or so for that
pleasure. Yes, one can degrade that customers performance by ratelimiting
or such, or prioritizing other customers traffic or something else, but
the 90/10 rule saves some of it, the problem is when the 90% start doing
the same, then the flat rate business model is a problem and does not
scale.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
