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Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble
From: Kenny Sallee <kenny.sallee () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:01:00 -0700
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Jessica Yu <jyy_99 () yahoo com> wrote:
I do not know if making such distinction would alter the conclusion of your paper. But, to me, there is a difference between one to predict the growth of one particular network based on the stats collected than one to predict the growth of the entire Internet with no solid data. Thanks!--Jessica
Agree with Jessica: you can't say the 'Internet' doubles every x number of days/amount of time no matter what the number of days or amount of time is. The 'Internet' is a series of tubes...hahaha couldn't help it....As we all know the Internet is a bunch of providers plugged into each other. Provider A may see an 10x increase in traffic every month while provider B may not. For example, if Google makes a deal with Verizon only Verizon will see a huge increase in traffic internally and less externally (or vice versa). Until Google goes somewhere else! So the whole 'myth' of Internet doubling every 100 days to me is something someone (ODell it seems) made up to appease someone higher in the chain or a government committee that really doesn't get it. IE - it's marketing talk to quantify something. I guess if all the ISP's in the world provided a central repository bandwidth numbers they have on their backbone then you could make up some stats about Internet traffic as a whole. But without that - it just doesn't make much sense. Just my .02 Kenny
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- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble, (continued)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Jorge Amodio (Aug 06)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Christopher Morrow (Aug 09)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Nick Hilliard (Aug 09)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Roland Perry (Aug 09)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Jorge Amodio (Aug 06)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Andrew Odlyzko (Aug 06)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Jessica Yu (Aug 06)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Andrew Odlyzko (Aug 06)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Jorge Amodio (Aug 07)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Min (Aug 06)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Kenny Sallee (Aug 09)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Roland Perry (Aug 10)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Haudy Kazemi (Aug 13)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Jeff Young (Aug 10)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble kris foster (Aug 10)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Roland Perry (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Andrew Odlyzko (Aug 06)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Jessica Yu (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Andrew Odlyzko (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 09)
- Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble Randy Bush (Aug 09)