On Tue, Oct 23, 2007, Sean Donelan wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Majdi S. Abbas wrote: > > What hurt these access providers, particularly those in the > >cable market, was a set of failed assumptions. The Internet became a > >commodity, driven by this web thing. As a result, standards like DOCSIS > >developed, and bandwidth was allocated, frequently in an asymmetric > >fashion, to access customers. We have lots of asymmetric access > >technologies, that are not well suited to some new applications. > > This doesn't explain why many universities, most with active, symmetric > ethernet switches in residential dorms, have been deploying packet shaping > technology for even longer than the cable companies. If the answer was > as simple as upgrading everyone to 100Mbps symmetric ethernet, or even > 1Gbps symmetric ethernet, then the university resnet's would be in great > shape. > > Ok, maybe the greedy commercial folks screwed up and deserve what they > got; but why are the nobel non-profit universities having the same > problems?
because off the shell p2p stuff doesn't seem to pick up on internal peers behind the great NAT that I've seen dorms behind? :P Adrian
