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
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.
Where does 95th percentile fit into this?
> 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."