----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hugo Slabbert" <hslabb...@stargate.ca>
> But this isn't talking about transit; this is about Comcast as an edge > network in this context and Netflix as a content provider sending to > Comcast users the traffic that they requested. Is there really > anything more nuanced here than: > > 1. Comcast sells connectivity to their end users and sizes their > network according to an oversubscription ratio they're happy with. > (Nothing wrong here; oversubscription is a fact of life). > 2. Bandwidth-heavy applications like Netflix enter the market. > 3. Comcast's customers start using these bandwidth-heavy applications > and suck in more data than Comcast was betting on. > 4. Comcast has to upgrade connectivity, e.g. at peering points with > the heavy inbound traffic sources, accordingly in order to satisfy > their customers' usage. You may be new here, but I'm not, and I read it exactly the same way. > How is this *not* Comcast's problem? If my users are requesting more > traffic than I banked on, how is it not my responsibility to ensure I > have capacity to handle that? I have gear; you have gear. I upgrade or > add ports on my side; you upgrade or add ports on your side. Am I > missing something? It is absolutely the problem of the eyeball carrier who gambled on a given oversubscription ratio and discovered that it's called gambling because sometimes, you lose. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
