Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

Tue Jan 9 18:01:34 UTC 2007

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Gian Constantine
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:27 PM
> To: Thomas Leavitt
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a 
> day, continuously?
> 
> My contention is simple. The content providers will not allow 
> P2P video as a legal commercial service anytime in the near 
> future. Furthermore, most ISPs are going to side with the 
> content providers on this one. Therefore, discussing it at 
> this point in time is purely academic, or more so, diversionary.
> 

I don't think they have a choice really. The state of the art in
application aware QoS/rate shaping is so behind the times that by the
time it caught, the application would have changed.

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