IPv6 news

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Tue Oct 18 14:46:04 UTC 2005


On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Andre Oppermann wrote:

> Again, this fails with the asymmetric nature of IP routing.

The assymetric nature is plus-point. It means the traffic out of the 
area goes out via the "correct" provider (ie the one whose customer 
it is).

> On top it fails on bandwidth issues.  What if super-cheap pron 
> hoster X is in that area doing streaming full-res HDTV to it's 
> suckers?

It goes via the ISP(s) which "super cheap hoster X" pays for transit.

> I bet some participants in your service area face some serious link 
> saturation issues.  None of the participants have any control or 
> estimates over the traffic that is and will be passing through 
> them.

Yep.

> Traffic flows will just happen there. Forget capacity planning. 
> You'd have a hard time finding ISP's interested in that.

Maybe.

Look at it the other way though, it's a business opportunity - you 
can make money by attracting as much area-destined external traffic 
as possible and handing it off to correct intra-area ISP for that 
subscriber. The more the better, it's a potential revenue source. 
It's in your interest to be able to carry all the external traffic 
into the area that you can get.

regards,
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