[94381] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Sat Jan 20 23:11:46 2007
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:40:39 +1030
From: Mark Smith <nanog@fa1c52f96c54f7450e1ffb215f29991e.nosense.org>
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D428A463-F1C6-44ED-ACD3-5A45BD8A22D2@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:47:04 -0800
Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com> wrote:
<snip>
>
> 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.
>
I think you're more or less describing what already Akamai do - they're
just not doing it for authorised P2P protocol distributed content (yet?).
Regards,
Mark.
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