RE: "Network Neutrality" or "Open Internet"

["StyleWar" <stylewar () cox net>]

Or - as an interesting object lesson in capacity management--

Please do whatever it takes to convince enough people in your office
building to flush all the toilets at once (more than 50% will probably
suffice) and report the results back to us. :)

What is sold is rarely what is used... usage is always factored into the
sale.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org 
> [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of 
> Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 2:57 AM
> To: Dude VanWinkle
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] "Network Neutrality" or "Open Internet" 
>
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:53:31 MDT, Dude VanWinkle said:
>
> > Maybe, but I am still confused. I cant buy a 2950 with 24 
> ports, then 
> > turn around and sell 24x100 mbps pipes, cause the device 
> only has an 
> > internal capability of 800mbps. I could only sell 24x33 
> mbps pipes...
> > or can I?
>
> You can certainly sell 24 100mb pipes.  Whether you can 
> actually *deliver* is a different matter....
>
> You didn't *seriously* think that most cablemodem and DSL 
> vendors actually have enough infrastructure to support 
> everybody using a full pipe at once, did you?
>
> Hell - there's some 30K network drops on our 2 /16s, most of 
> which are 100mbit.
> And we've only got a 10Gbit uplink to Abeline/Lambdarail/etc 
> and a 2xOC12 that eventually lands in Sprint land.  I think 
> we're *way* overcommitted. ;)


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