If the cable operators put their broadcast content onto an access network multicast . . . Then how could they resell the same content to europe?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 4:15 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: [Nanog] ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010 > > http://www.news.com/2100-1034_3-6237715.html > > I find claims that "soon everything will be HD" somewhat > dubious (working for a company that produces video for online > distribution) - although certainly not as eyebrow-raising as > "in 3 years' time, 20 typical households will generate more > traffic than the entire Internet today". Is there some secret > plan to put 40Gb ethernet to "typical households" in the next > 3 years that I haven't heard about? I don't have accurate > figures on how much traffic "the entire Internet" > generates, but I'm fairly certain that 5% of it could not be > generated by any single household regardless of equipment > installed, torrents traded or videos downloaded. Even given a > liberal application of Moore's Law, I doubt that would be the > case in 2010 either. > > Does anybody know what the basis for Mr. Cicconi's claims > were (if they even had a basis at all)? Internal reports from > ATT engineering? > Perusal of industry news sources? IRC? A lot of scary numbers > were tossed into the air without any mention of how they were > derived. A cynical person might be tempted to think it was > all a scare tactic to soften up legislators for the next wave > of "reasonable network management" practices that just happen > to have significant revenue streams attached to them ... > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED],darkuncle.net} || 0x5537F527 > http://darkuncle.net/pubkey.asc for public key > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > NANOG@nanog.org > http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog > _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
