"Vint Cerf Says Symmetry is Beautiful"
Interesting comments made by Vint Cerf at Wednesday evenings "Freedom to Connect" dinner on his thoughts concerning where the Internet should go in the future, push/pull symmetry (or, "why legacy providers do not want to offer true, symmetric broadband"), et.al: Cerf Says Symmetry is Beautiful http://www.isp-planet.com/news/2005/cerf_f2c.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
Cerf Says Symmetry is Beautiful
From a commercial perspective I think that it's hard to recouperate cost from a 10 meg symmetrical connection when the customer is running p2p and is using most of that bw 24/7 and is only paying $40 or so for that
Of course, from a technical point of view I am all for symmetrical connections as well. pleasure. Yes, one can degrade that customers performance by ratelimiting or such, or prioritizing other customers traffic or something else, but the 90/10 rule saves some of it, the problem is when the 90% start doing the same, then the flat rate business model is a problem and does not scale. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
Where does 95th percentile fit into this? On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:59:37PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
Cerf Says Symmetry is Beautiful
Of course, from a technical point of view I am all for symmetrical connections as well.
From a commercial perspective I think that it's hard to recouperate cost from a 10 meg symmetrical connection when the customer is running p2p and is using most of that bw 24/7 and is only paying $40 or so for that pleasure. Yes, one can degrade that customers performance by ratelimiting or such, or prioritizing other customers traffic or something else, but the 90/10 rule saves some of it, the problem is when the 90% start doing the same, then the flat rate business model is a problem and does not scale.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
-- Bubba Parker sysadmin@citynetwireless.net CityNet LLC http://www.citynetinfo.com/
Cerf Says Symmetry is Beautiful
Of course, from a technical point of view I am all for symmetrical connections as well.
From a commercial perspective I think that it's hard to recouperate cost from a 10 meg symmetrical connection when the customer is running p2p and is using most of that bw 24/7 and is only paying $40 or so for that pleasure.
i think the right rule is, "if you can't make money from it, don't sell it." -- Paul Vixie
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Paul Vixie