[95234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Tue Mar 13 11:24:16 2007
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:19:57 +0000
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Todd Vierling" <tv@pobox.com>
Cc: "Gadi Evron" <ge@linuxbox.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <f13ed07b0703130811q3d4d9705k1c142a33fa3946c2@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3/13/07, Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:
> Critical mass is approaching. There's only so long that North
> American consumers can be held back from bandwidth-hogging
> applications and downloads while parts of the world have long since
> upgraded to 10Mbit/s bidirectional (and beyond) consumer-grade access
> speeds.
>
> Both cable and DSL providers are about to have a very loud wake-up
> call, and from here, I see absolutely zero uptake of newer technology
> and infrastructure to offset the inevitable.
768 ain't broadband. Buy Cisco, Alcatel, and Akamai stock!
