[94208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Jan 13 05:36:28 2007
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:31:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <030b01c73610$c2dbcd70$6601a8c0@atlanta.polycom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> There is no technical challenge here; what the pirates are already doing
> works pretty well, and with a little UI work it'd even be ready for the mass
> market. The challenges are figuring out how to pay for the pipes needed to
> deliver all these bits at consumer rates, and how to collect revenue from all
> the viewers to fairly compensate the producers -- both business problems,
> though for different folks.
Will the North American market change from using speed to volume for
pricing Internet connections? Web hosting and other markets around the
world already use GB/transferred packages instead of the port speed.
What happens if a 100Mbps port is $19.95/month with $1.95 per GB
transferred up and down? Are P2P swarms as attractive?
