Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

["Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith () gmail com>]

On 10/12/07, Tony Finch <dot () dotat at> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > If it's multicast TV I don't see the problem, it doesn't increase your
> > backbone traffic linearly with the number of people doing it.
>
> However if you have UK-style ADSL ppp backhaul then multicast doesn't
> help.
>
> Tony.


Not to drag this too far off topic, but have serious studies been done
looking at moving switching fabric closer to the DSLAMs (versus doing
everything PPPoE)? I know this sort of goes opposite of how ILECs are setup
to dish out DSL, but as more traffic is being pushed user to user, it may
make economic/technical sense.

-brandon