[98768] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Thu Aug 16 23:59:07 2007
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:20:07 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: michael.dillon@bt.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B0E17BD6@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007, michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
> > I'm pushing an agenda in the open source world to add
> > some concept of locality, with the purpose of moving traffic off ISP
> > networks when I can. I think the user will be just as happy or
> > happier, and folks pushing large optics will certainly be.
>
> When you hear stories like the Icelandic ISP who discovered that P2P was
> 80% of their submarine bandwidth and promptly implemented P2P
> throttling, I think that the open source P2P will be driven to it by
> their user demand.
.. or we could start talking about how Australian ISPs are madly throttling
P2P traffic. Not just because of its impact on international trunks,
but their POP/wholesale DSL infrastructure method just makes P2P even
between clients on the same ISP mostly horrible.
Adrian
