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Re: The 100 Gbit/s problem in your network


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 16:13:37 -0500

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Laurent GUERBY <laurent () guerby net> wrote:

The "problem" with increasing capacity is that it opens up captive
eyeballs to innovative services from "outside": monopoly operators will
prefer to deal with CDN providers & the like and keep control.

there are ways to offer vod/etc without pulling that content across
your 'internet' backbone, of course you'd still have to provide enough
capacity at the last L3 device (probably) to get all customers fed,
but... at least it's not all aggregated with cat videos from vimeo?


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