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Marketplace story on FCC and Comcast {for sure djf}
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:52:52 -0700
________________________________________ From: Tony Lauck [tlauck () madriver com] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 11:35 AM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Marketplace story on FCC and Comcast Those of us who make, or have made, our living in networking are fortunate that appetite has been unlimited. I see no reason for this to change so long as computers, storage and communications remain on similar technology curves. If it isn't P2P, it will be some other application, for example off-site backup. (If moving bits over the net were cheaper than driving hard drives across town, I would be moving tens of gigabytes regularly.) Networks need to be designed so that the load placed by heavy users doesn't unduly impact the responsiveness seen by light users. This is an engineering problem that has been recognized since the design of time-sharing scheduling algorithms in the 1960's. Of course it would be easy enough to remove communications from the technology curve, making the situation worse. Two ways come to mind: monopoly and regulation. It would be a shame to get one as the result of trying to avoid the other. Tony Lauck www.aglauck.com David Farber wrote:
________________________________________ From: Dr. Lawrence Roberts [lroberts () anagran com] Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 9:53 PM To: Dan Lynch; David Farber; lroberts () anagran com Subject: Re: [IP] Marketplace story on FCC and Comcast Dan, For those who want to watch a movie per day, downloading a 3 GB movie at 500 Kbps takes 13 hrs, about all you want to spend on it. However you also must in return send out 3 GB of your stored movies each day for the system to work. If 5% of a University student body does this, a 20,000 student University would require 500 Mbps each way during the 13 peak hours. So you see, it is easy to consume 1/2 Mbps per person. Is there a limit? Yes I would think so. 2-3 movies per day seem like the most one could consume. But some of these students use 5 Mbps continuously. So when I say unlimited appetite, I mean within the context of current average people usage which is much lower. An Example: If a University has 5000 students and 180 of them use 1/2 Mbps for the peak period then the average data rate over a 100 Mbps Internet access will be 20 Kbps and each P2P user is using 25 flows. There will be another 500 average users trying to operate one flow at any moment and they also will get 20 Kbps. 90% of the capacity is going to P2P. Larry At 03:56 PM 7/13/2008, Dan Lynch wrote: Larry, I don't doubt your measurements, but gee, are you saying that P2P has an "unlimited" appetite? As if there are an unlimited number of files to be shared and the queue stretches to infinity? Where is that demand coming from? I am imagining hordes of files out there that people are adding to their Torrent lists as the pipes come slightly unclogged. Is that your model of demand? Dan PS. Too bad storage got so cheap! Else someone could be making more money out of that! On 7/13/08 2:28 PM, "David Farber" <dave () farber net> wrote:________________________________________ From: Dr. Lawrence Roberts [lroberts () anagran com] Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 3:08 PM To: David Farber; Dr. Lawrence Roberts Subject: RE: Marketplace story on FCC and Comcast Dave, Sure! I want people to start understanding the dynamics of the problem. Please add me also if that,s ok so I can see comments. Larry At 02:44 AM 7/13/2008, David Farber wrote: Can I repost to my IP list? ________________________________________ From: Dr. Lawrence Roberts [lroberts () anagran com] Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 11:43 PM Subject: RE: Marketplace story on FCC and Comcast Jeff, Like George, I agree the DSL and FTTX ISP's will not shift, but there is another reason. The DSL companies have just as big or larger problem with P2P since P2P expands to fill any capacity. In fact, as I have been testing and modeling P2P I find it taking up even higher fractions of the capacity as the total capacity expands. This is because each P2P app. can get more capacity and it is designed to take all it can. In the Univerisities we have measured, the P2P grows to between 95-98% of their Internet usage. It does this by reducing the rate per flow lower and lower, which by virtue of the current network design where all flows get equal capacity, drives the average rate per flow for average users down to their rate. They then win by virtue of having more flows, up to 1000 per user. I suspect they do not do this on cable since the upstream capacity is only 10 Mbps and when it saturates, they must stop at about 80%. But raise the capacity per user and the capacity of the upstream choke point and watch out! P2P can consume virtually any capacity. Larry ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com<http://www.listbox.com/>Tel. 707-967-0203 Cell 650-776-7313 My assistant is Dori Kirk Tel. 707-255-7094 dori () lynch com Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts, Ph:+1 650-906-8746, W: www.anagran.com<http://www.anagran.com/>, E: lroberts () anagran com Founder, Chairman, Chief Architect, Anagran, Inc., 580 Pastoria Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA If not for you, please return. Any use other than the intended recipient is unauthorized. ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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