[95310] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bora Akyol)
Wed Mar 14 14:24:07 2007
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:22:53 -0700
In-Reply-To: <f13ed07b0703130958t3e89868dn8495f0220ef49b57@mail.gmail.com>
From: "Bora Akyol" <bora@broadcom.com>
To: "Todd Vierling" <tv@pobox.com>,
"Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
You are right. Video content tailored to every user is going to be the
next killer app.
Unfortunately, neither the telcos nor the cable companies quite get
this. They are stuck to their "channels" and everything is priced in
terms of channels.
As far as Bittorrent goes, if you ever wanted to get content that is not
available in the US, is there another choice?
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> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of Todd Vierling
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:58 AM
> To: Roland Dobbins
> Cc: NANOG
> Subject: Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell=20
> big users (fwd)
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> 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. ;>
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> 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.
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> > And on-demand DVR-type things
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> 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>
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