[94379] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Sat Jan 20 22:54:08 2007
In-Reply-To: <20070121140804.bd6ea736.nanog@fa1c52f96c54f7450e1ffb215f29991e.nosense.org>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:47:04 -0800
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 20, 2007, at 7:38 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
> Maybe I haven't understood what that exactly does, however it seems to
> me that's really just a bit-torrent client/server in the ADSL router.
> Certainly having a bittorrent server in the ADSL router is unique, but
> not really what I was getting at.
I understand it's not what you meant; my point is that if the SPs
don't figure out how to do this, the customers will, by whatever
means they have at their disposal, with always-on devices which do
the distribution and seeding and caching automagically, and with a
revenue model attached. I foresee consumer-level devices like this
little Asus router which not only act as torrent clients/servers, but
which also are woven together into caches with something like PNRP as
the location service (and perhaps an innovative content producer/
distributor acting as a billing overlay prover a la FON in order to
monetize same, leaving the SP with nothing).
The advantage of providing caching services is that they both help
preserve scare resources and result in a more pleasing user
experience. As already pointed out, CAPEX/OPEX along with insertion
into the network are the current barriers, along with potential legal
liabilities; cooperation between content providers and SPs could help
alleviate some of these problems and make it a more attractive model,
and help fund this kind of infrastructure in order to make more
efficient use of bandwidth at various points in the topology.
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