[99813] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Fri Oct 5 08:53:24 2007
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:47:01 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: michael.dillon@bt.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B001267ACF@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007, michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
>
>
> > And before anyone accuses me of sounding overly critical
> > towards the AU ISP's, let me point out that we've dropped the
> > ball in a major way here in the United States, as well.
>
> We've dropped the ball in any place where the broadband architecture is
> to backhaul IP packets from the site where DSL or cable lines are
> concentrated, into an ISP's PoP. This means that P2P packets between
> users at the same concentration site, are forced to trombone back and
> forth over the same congested circuits. And P2P is the main way to
> reduce the overall load that video places on the Internet.
Hm, Australia is pretty much that exact architecture.
Adrian
