On 1/15/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adrian Chadd</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:adrian@creative.net.au">adrian@creative.net.au</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>ffs, stop with the crappy analogies.<br><br>The internet is like a badly designed commodity network. Built increasingly<br>cheaper to deal with market pressures and unable to shift quickly to shifting<br>technologies.
<br><br>Just like the telcos I recall everyone blasting when I was last actually<br>involved in networks bigger than a university campus.<br><br>Adrian<br><br></blockquote></div><br>I think no matter what happens, it&#39;s going to be very interesting as Comcast rolls out DOCSIS 
3.0 (with speeds around 100-150Mbps possible), Verizon FIOS expands it&#39;s offering (currently, you can get 50Mb/s down and 30Mb/sec up), etc. If things are really as fragile as some have been saying, then the bottlenecks will slowly make themselves apparent.
<br><br>-brandon<br>