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Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Tue Mar 13 11:32:29 2007

In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0703131515580.272@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:27:04 -0700
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote:

> what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to
> the end user?

BitTorrent.

;>

And on-demand DVR-type things which I believe will grow in  
popularity.  Of course, most of those are overlays which the SPs  
themselves don't offer; when they wish to do so, it'll become an  
issue, IMHO.

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