Bottlenecks and link upgrades

Wed Aug 12 20:11:43 UTC 2020

On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

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> At what point do commercial ISPs upgrade links in their backbone as well as peering and transit links that are congested?  At
> 80% capacity?  90%?  95%? 
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> Thanks,
> Hank
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> Caveat: The views expressed above are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer
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Why upgrade when you can legislate the problem instead.

Charter tries to convince FCC that broadband customers want data caps.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/charter-tries-to-convince-fcc-that-broadband-customers-want-data-caps/

Ted