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Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:50:40 -0500
On Jan 23, 2020, at 1:25 PM, Warren Kumari <warren () kumari net> wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:45 PM Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com> wrote:This just follows the same rules as networks have always seemed to; If you build it, they will come, and you'll have to build more. :)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demandYup, there is also (in networking at least) suppressed demand -- I'm sure we've all seen capacity planning discussions along the lines of: "My 1GE is running at 95% capacity - I'm replacing it with a 10GE and it will be around 10% used... wait?! What?! It's now at 7Gbps?! How the hell did that happen?!" scenarios. They usedto be funny, but these days I just find it depressing...
I find it both happy and disturbing. I remember the first 2.4/2.5g links I turned up as well as the first 10g and (eventually) the first 100g links. I was leaving the house earlier this week thinking about how it used to be Mbps of traffic that was a lot and now it’s Gbps and how that’s shifted to Tbps. While it makes me feel old, it’s also something that I marvel about periodically. - jared
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- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Brandon Martin (Jan 23)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Mike Hammett (Jan 23)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Jared Mauch (Jan 23)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Valdis Klētnieks (Jan 23)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Jared Mauch (Jan 23)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Tom Beecher (Jan 23)
- RE: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that jdambrosia (Jan 23)
- RE: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Aaron Gould (Jan 24)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Hugo Slabbert (Jan 23)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Warren Kumari (Jan 23)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Jared Mauch (Jan 23)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Paul Nash (Jan 23)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that bzs (Jan 23)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Simon Leinen (Jan 24)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Töma Gavrichenkov (Jan 24)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Niels Bakker (Jan 24)
- RE: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Aaron Gould (Jan 24)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Warren Kumari (Jan 24)
- RE: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Aaron Gould (Jan 24)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Paul Nash (Jan 25)
- Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that (now old guy stuff) Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail) (Jan 25)