[95252] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Tue Mar 13 13:06:01 2007
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:58:29 -0400
From: "Todd Vierling" <tv@pobox.com>
To: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <47D70991-38A4-4342-902F-D17A05406B09@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3/13/07, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com> wrote:
> > what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to
> > the end user?
>
> BitTorrent. ;>
Smiley highly appropriate there. The cultural diversity of the
Internet-using population simply isn't capable of making BT a
practical application for >99% of large, *legally* distributed data.
Well, yet.
> And on-demand DVR-type things
IMHO, this (no, not VoIP) is the killer app. Though I consider them
still above the learning curve of most US consumers, the existence of
the Slingbox and SageTV Placeshifter should indicate that we're
getting close to the proverbial wall.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
