[79161] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucy E. Lynch)
Thu Mar 31 12:36:11 2005
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:35:46 -0800 (PST)
From: "Lucy E. Lynch" <llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <16972.11229.249541.972562@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> >> Korea Telecom recently decided to scrap its flat rate high speed [1]
> >> broadband offering and move to a traffic based charging plan - must be
> >> because most korean broadband gets used for online gaming, which is as
> >> high bandwidth use an app as you can get ... and they're hit by the same
> >> situation, which does start to bite when a few users start maxing out
> >> their pipes, and really begins to hurt when "few" suddenly becomes
> >> "most"
> > My guess would be that PtP is a much bigger bandwidth hog than gaming,
> > especially for the people who have high upstream capacity (10meg+).
>
> the seven biggest isps in japan recently cooperated on a really
> good paper measuring a lot about broadband use in japan. it is
> in the most recent ccr, v35n1 jan 05. sorry, siteseer seems not
> to have it yet.
>
> randy
>
that would be:
"The impact of residential broadband traffic on Japanese ISP backbones"
Authors
Kensuke Fukuda NTT/WIDE
Kenjiro Cho IIJ/WIDE
Hiroshi Esaki U. Tokyo/WIDE
http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1052820&type=pdf
if the ACM link doesn't work, try:
http://www.iijlab.net/~kjc/papers/srccs-rbb-traffic-2up.pdf
