[Fwd: [IP] Japan facing bandwidth shortage due to take-up in broadband]

Thu Jun 10 00:26:05 UTC 2004

you may want to look at the relationship between the japanese
government and the industry, and the various societal players
in between, before taking this at north american face value.

but 100meg ether to the home and office (in the urban centers)
and more innovative use of media have fostered much faster
increases of bandwidth needs in japan and korea than in north
america.

and shuresh, when you have some good automated technology for
"clamping down on worm traffic / assorted junk from zombies
and open proxies etc," i suspect many folk in those countries
and the rest of the world will deploy it or something like it.
in the meantwixt, our sympathies that your monopolistic telco
environment has not fostered enough bandwidth deployment that
your country could become a worm ... problem :-).

randy