[94088] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bora Akyol)
Tue Jan 9 13:04:23 2007
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:01:34 -0800
In-Reply-To: <D0BD9120-B198-48A4-8CBC-61D64FE01CB9@corp.earthlink.net>
From: "Bora Akyol" <bora@broadcom.com>
To: "Gian Constantine" <constantinegi@corp.earthlink.net>,
"Thomas Leavitt" <thomas@thomasleavitt.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of Gian Constantine
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:27 PM
> To: Thomas Leavitt
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a=20
> day, continuously?
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> My contention is simple. The content providers will not allow=20
> P2P video as a legal commercial service anytime in the near=20
> future. Furthermore, most ISPs are going to side with the=20
> content providers on this one. Therefore, discussing it at=20
> this point in time is purely academic, or more so, diversionary.
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I don't think they have a choice really. The state of the art in
application aware QoS/rate shaping is so behind the times that by the
time it caught, the application would have changed.
Bora
