Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

[Andrey Khomyakov <khomyakov.andrey () gmail com>]

My understanding was that the whole point of iCloud is to not upload but
rather use Apple's stored music files as long as you have them in your
library. You have a valid point however with other similar services, like
amazon's. But that's been out for a while.

--Andrey


On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Skeeve Stevens <Skeeve () eintellego net>wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I've been thinking about the impact that iCloud (by Apple) will have on the
> Internet.
>
> My guess is that 99% of consumer internet access is Asymmetrical (DSL,
> Cable, wireless, etc) and iCloud when launched will 'upload' obscene amounts
> of gigs of music, tv, backups, email, photos, documents/data and so on to
> their data centres.
>
> Now, don't misunderstand me, I love the concept of iCloud, as I do DropBox,
> but from an Access Providers perspective, I'm thinking this might be a 'bad
> thing'.
>
> From what I can see there are some key issues:
>
>  *   Users with plans that count upload and download together.
>  *   The speed of Asymmetric tail technology such as DSL
>  *   The design of access provider backhaul (from DSLAM to core) metrics
>  *   The design of some transit metrics
>
> So basically the potential issue is that a large residential provider could
> have thousands of users connect to iCloud, their connections slowed because
> of uploading data, burning their included bandwidth caps, slowing down the
> backhaul segment of the network, and as residential providers are mostly
> download, some purchase transit from their upstreams in an symmetric
> fashion.
>
> This post is really just to prompt discussion if people think there is
> anything to actually worry about, or there are other implications that I've
> not really thought of yet.
>
> …Skeeve
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