Alan Hannan writes:
DWDM and huge fiber builds will get us part of the way to handling internet growth, but we need to find ways to utilize upper-layer tweaks to do more with less.
-alan
Indeed. (The technical merits of DIGEX's current approach not withstanding) No amount of capacity upgrades will obviate the need for an intelligent architecture for content distribution on the net. Utilization will explode to consume all bandwidth available and in the absence of an elegant architecture will do so rather wastefully. Most sites on the web are currently misdeployed/incorrectly-located on the network. Techniques that prevents unwarranted replication of data and bring the content to the user rather than the user to the content will bring about more efficient use of bandwidth while increasing performance for all users. These need to be complemented with techniques to address the concerns of other constituents, like marketeers. --pushpendra Pushpendra Mohta pushp@cerf.net +1 619 812 3908 TCG CERFnet http://www.cerf.net +1 619 812 3995 (FAX)