Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP

Fri May 16 15:08:33 UTC 2014

Social media is not a big driver of symmetrical traffic here in the US or
internationally.  Broadband suffers here for a number of reasons, mainly
topological and population density, in comparison to places like Japan,
parts (but certainly not all) of Europe, and South Korea.

Scott Helms
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On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

> On Friday, May 16, 2014 03:54:33 PM Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> > customers. 2. This is because when they built their
> > business models, they didn’t expect their customers to
> > use nearly as much of their promised bandwidth as they
> > are now using. Most of the models were constructed
> > around the idea that a customer receiving, say 27mbps
> > down/7mbps up would use all of that bandwidth in short
> > bursts and mostly use less than a megabit.
>
> And in general, models have assumed, for a long time, that
> customer demand patterns are largely asymmetric.
>
> While that is true a lot of the time (especially for eyeball
> networks), it is less so now due to social media. Social
> media forces the use of symmetric bandwidth (like FTTH),
> putting even more demand on the network, and making the gist
> of this thread an even bigger issue, if you discount the
> fact, of course, that Broadband in the U.S. currently sucks
> for a developed market.
>
> Mark.
>