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Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style


From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent () guerby net>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:23:54 +0100

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 16:20 -0500, Ricky Beam wrote:
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:24:45 -0500, Craig L Uebringer  
<cluebringer () gmail com> wrote:
Same crap I've seen on loads of provider networks.

No ISP I've ever worked for or with has ever willingly ran their transit  
(or peering) links at capacity.

(Granted, I've been responsible for saturating links, but I moved user  
traffic off of them first.)

--Ricky

PS: TATA confirmed Comcast's behavior before anyone found any traffic  
graphs.  We already knew they were gaming their own customer base.

According to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast
"Comcast has 15.930 million high-speed internet customers"

If a 10G port for transit is paid by comcast $30/Mbit/s monthly
that's 0.19 cent/internet customer/month for a new 10G port
to properly desaturate this particular link.

Did I compute something wrong?

Laurent





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