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Re: Google wants to be your Internet
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () cisco com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:25:21 -0800
On Jan 20, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
I think you're more or less describing what already Akamai do - they're just not doing it for authorised P2P protocol distributed content (yet?).
Yes, and P2P might make sense for them to explore - but a) it doesn't help SPs smooth out bandwidth 'hotspots' in and around their access networks due to P2P activity, b) doesn't bring the content out to the very edges of the access network, where the users are, and c) isn't something which can be woven together out of more or less off-the- shelf technology with the users themselves supplying the infrastructure and paying for (and being compensated for, a la FON or SpeakEasy's WiFi sharing program) the access bandwidth.
It seems to me that a FON-/Speakeasy-type bandwidth-charge compensation model for end-user P2P caching and distribution might be an interesting approach for SPs to consider, as it would reduce the CAPEX and OPEX for caching services and encourage the users themselves to subsidize the bandwidth costs to one degree or another.
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- Re: Google wants to be your Internet, (continued)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Randy Bush (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Gadi Evron (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Charlie Allom (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Adrian Chadd (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Mark Smith (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Mark Smith (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Mark Smith (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet rich (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Adrian Chadd (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Stephen Sprunk (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Randy Bush (Jan 20)
- CDN & ISP (was: Re: Google wants to be your Internet) Michal Krsek (Jan 22)
- Re: CDN & ISP (was: Re: Google wants to be your Internet) Gadi Evron (Jan 22)
- Re: CDN & ISP (was: Re: Google wants to be your Internet) Mark Smith (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Gadi Evron (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Charlie Allom (Jan 20)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Travis H. (Jan 20)