[94382] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Sat Jan 20 23:27:05 2007
In-Reply-To: <20070121144039.56c15de5.nanog@fa1c52f96c54f7450e1ffb215f29991e.nosense.org>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:25:21 -0800
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 20, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
> 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?).
Yes, and P2P might make sense for them to explore - but a) it doesn't
help SPs smooth out bandwidth 'hotspots' in and around their access
networks due to P2P activity, b) doesn't bring the content out to the
very edges of the access network, where the users are, and c) isn't
something which can be woven together out of more or less off-the-
shelf technology with the users themselves supplying the
infrastructure and paying for (and being compensated for, a la FON or
SpeakEasy's WiFi sharing program) the access bandwidth.
It seems to me that a FON-/Speakeasy-type bandwidth-charge
compensation model for end-user P2P caching and distribution might be
an interesting approach for SPs to consider, as it would reduce the
CAPEX and OPEX for caching services and encourage the users
themselves to subsidize the bandwidth costs to one degree or another.
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