[99859] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sat Oct 6 23:41:28 2007
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:40:31 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: michael.dillon@bt.com
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B001267ACF@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
We could have used IP Multicast, but nobody on the consumer side wanted
to carry state instead of packets.
> --Michael Dillon
>
