[88476] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Feb 7 10:28:20 2006
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:27:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch@corp.earthlink.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <BB8426A9-1CB0-49F6-AEA1-CFDEBBC999CF@corp.earthlink.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
> If you're near real time, you have lots of options actually. And I
> would contend that p2p can be efficient for broadcast distribution
> actually. There already are several startups doing exactly that for
> large scalability.
Yep. Lots of startups have lots of ideas. If you are selling hammers,
you can use the same hammer for lots of projects. But I'm not a true
believer in the hammer religion.
> No actual end user (other than the geek crowd) will ever care that
> it's BitTorrent or whatever. Agreed. But that doesn't mean a
> bastardization of the idea won't run underneath.
I'm a terrible forecaster. I have no idea how the future will turn
out. Sometimes there are several ways to solve a problem.
