I'm not saying that people haven't being doing itŠ Dropbox is an exampleŠ but you add millions of iPads, iPhones, iPod Touches and OSX Lion's out there and that means a hell of a lot of new traffic. ŠSkeeve -- Skeeve Stevens, CEO - eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists skeeve@eintellego.net ; www.eintellego.net Phone: 1300 753 383 ; Fax: (+612) 8572 9954 Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve facebook.com/eintellego or eintellego@facebook.com twitter.com/networkceoau ; www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve PO Box 7726, Baulkham Hills, NSW 1755 Australia -- eintellego - The Experts that the Experts call - Juniper - HP Networking - Cisco - Brocade -----Original Message----- From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 08:55:44 -0400 To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net> Cc: Skeeve Stevens <skeeve@eintellego.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?
I was thinking the same thing. People have been dealing with this for years. File sharing has had the same properties in the access networks for years now.
Jared Mauch
On Sep 3, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net> wrote:
I think is would be short term. The home user is not going to continuously upload data. They will do an initial sync, then incrementals.
People are doing this today with success. This is not a new thing.