Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble

2010-08-10 Thread kris foster
A comment from Jeremy Orbell at LINX: -- The period of growth being discussed predates my own involvement in the industry as I didn't join LINX until 2003. However I do know that LINX regularly announced new traffic milestones at the exchange as they happened back in the late 90s. I've looked b

Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble

2010-08-10 Thread Jeff Young
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 At the time these statements were made it was possible to make reasonable assumptions about the size of the Internet. As a Tier 1 knew how much traffic our customer links generated by the size of the link. We knew exactly how much traffic stayed

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
Top posting reformatted. > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > >> That said, the actual, published document has some huge issues. It pays > >> excellent lip service to net neutrality, but it has simply HUGE > >> loopholes with lots of weasel words that could be used to get away with > >> most anything. for

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:42:43 PDT, Joseph Jackson said: > The way I understand it is if you aren't paying for preferred service then > your VPN traffic would be at the bottom of the stack on forwarding. So while > it gets around GeoIP stuff vpns would be subject to the same quality of > service >

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: Joseph Jackson > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:42:43 -0700 > > > > -Original Message- > From: Jeroen van Aart [mailto:jer...@mompl.net] > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 3:33 PM > To: NANOG list > Subject: Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Tha

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Joly MacFie
Isn't the essence of consensus is to find common areas of agreement while punting on the rest. There's plenty to focus on that IS in there, like transparency and FCC control? Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> That said, the actual, published document has some huge issues. It pays >> excellent lip servic

RE: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Joseph Jackson
-Original Message- From: Jeroen van Aart [mailto:jer...@mompl.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 3:33 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster Kevin Oberman wrote: > That said, the actual, published document has some huge issues. It pays > excellent lip se

Re: AW: Recommended 1Gb SFP for ~115km?

2010-08-10 Thread Will Hargrave
On 4 Aug 2010, at 17:58, Thomas Weible wrote: > Cisco did a quite good job on implementing the DDM characteristics of the > optics. So why not to take a 32dB or even 41dB power budget SFP and make it > workable in the switch / router. Works like charm in some setups and you see > straight the

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Kevin Oberman wrote: That said, the actual, published document has some huge issues. It pays excellent lip service to net neutrality, but it has simply HUGE loopholes with lots of weasel words that could be used to get away with most anything. for example, it expressly excludes and wireless netwo

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
It makes the thread very hard to follow. > Why not? > > Please don't top post! > From: Justin Horstman > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:54:12 -0700 > > That link is silly, and completely opposite to what they said > > -Original Message- > From: Harry Hoffman [mailto:hhoff...@ip-solutions

RE: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Justin Horstman
That link is silly, and completely opposite to what they said -Original Message- From: Harry Hoffman [mailto:hhoff...@ip-solutions.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 11:00 AM To: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster Heh, we

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Kenny Sallee
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > > Maybe the ISP's should move this choice to the consumer. > > The consumer already has this option on many SOHO firewalls. No action by > ISPs is required. But this is totally irrelevant to the idea of Net > Neutrality. > > Yes - but y

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Harry Hoffman
Heh, well is seems like one of the PIRGs is joining the fray, at least in PA: http://www.pennpirg.org/action/google?id4=es On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:46 -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:29:46 EDT, Joly MacFie said: > > Nor ensure 'lawful' content > > Do you *really*

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Kenny Sallee
so you'd like to foist the problem off to the provider > (cost/configuration) and benefit? Are you willing to pay some > incrementally higher charge per month for that service? what about for > security services? Do you think there are enough folks willing to pay > for this sort of thing that it'd

RE: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> Maybe the ISP's should move this choice to the consumer.   The consumer already has this option on many SOHO firewalls. No action by ISPs is required. But this is totally irrelevant to the idea of Net Neutrality. > I view this exercise as paying for priority when the circuit is full -- like

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Kenny Sallee wrote: > Maybe the ISP's should move this choice to the consumer.  The last mile is > 'usually' where congestion really hits.  Why not build a portal for > consumers to go in an choose what's important to them?  I know some MPLS VPN > providers do so

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Mike Sabbota
I don't see providers ever pushing it that far down the stream. Would you be willing to pay more for your consumer connection to maintain those types of features? Business connections, absolutely. It's really about controlling bandwidth on the shared link, not your individual home connection. So

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Kenny Sallee
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > > Is there a performance difference between the Internet and Internet2? > > Should that be allowed, or must all IP networks have the same > > performance? > > I think that statement may confuse metrics like performance and capacity, > with

RE: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> Is there a performance difference between the Internet and Internet2? > Should that be allowed, or must all IP networks have the same > performance? I think that statement may confuse metrics like performance and capacity, with the action of intentionally QOS'ing Netflix over Youtube over the s

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Zaid Ali wrote: The devil is always in the details. The Network management piece is quite glossed over and gives a different perception in the summary. You can't perform the proposed network management piece without

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Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble

2010-08-10 Thread Roland Perry
In article , Kenny Sallee writes So the whole 'myth' of Internet doubling every 100 days to me is something someone (ODell it seems) made up to appease someone higher in the chain or a government committee that really doesn't get it. [Whether it was really 100 days, or 200 days...] a statist