[94084] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Jan 9 11:49:31 2007
In-Reply-To: <4B97B2E8-D7BF-4C56-AD0C-2EE7935FD100@corp.earthlink.net>
Cc: Thomas Leavitt <thomas@thomasleavitt.org>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:47:12 -0500
To: Gian Constantine <constantinegi@corp.earthlink.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 9-Jan-2007, at 11:29, Gian Constantine wrote:
> Those numbers are reasonably accurate for some networks at certain
> times. There is often a back and forth between BitTorrent and NNTP
> traffic. Many ISPs regulate BitTorrent traffic for this very
> reason. Massive increases in this type of traffic would not be
> looked upon favorably.
The act of regulating p2p traffic is a bit like playing whack-a-mole.
At what point does it cost more to play that game than it costs to
build out to carry the traffic?
> If you considered my previous posts, you would know I agree
> streaming is scary on a large scale, but unicast streaming is what
> I reference. Multicast streaming is the real solution. Ultimately,
> a global multicast network is the only way to deliver these
> services to a large market.
The trouble with IP multicast is that it doesn't exist, in a wide-
scale, deployed, inter-provider sense.
Joe
