 kapilThe Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL | STFU Deloitte has no clue how the ISP business works.
If End User is not getting bandwidth he expects from his pipe, he will complain to his ISP. If ISP is oversold he will get another pipe to upstream provider. If upstream provider is running short on capacity, he will add capacity to the backbone. If backbone is getting congested the backbone provider will add additional pipes to peering partners.
If the providers don't add capacity they will lose business to someone who will.
There is not going to be some Fios-like expansion campaign where the upstream providers and backbones go on a building spree (they did that in the 90's) ....the growth is going to be more organic.
The capacity is added constantly as needed and will continue to be added as needed. Backbone providers are sitting on more dark fiber than God and it can be lit when the need arises.
The more serious problem will occur when the machines that route the traffic become inefficient at handling such large amounts of traffic...but I have faith in cisco, redback, juniper, nortel...they will just dream up ever more powerful routers.
Reports pertaining to technical issues shouldn't be written by bean-counters that need help signing on to AOL or can't get on the Interweb without a call to their helpful IT person at work. |
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| I couldn't agree more.
Reminds me of the sales people in my last job. They knew everything and were really just asking IT those questions to make sure we were on our toes.  |
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 Mac BridgerLate to the partyPremium
join:2001-01-11
West Newton, PA | reply to kapil
I know I gave you  , but I just had to publicly state what a great post that is. Companies don't upgrade, they lose out on the $$. |
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It's like more and more cars on the highways and no one wanting to build more roads. They got to go somewhere. |
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 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | reply to kapil
said by kapil:The more serious problem will occur when the machines that route the traffic become inefficient at handling such large amounts of traffic...but I have faith in cisco, redback, juniper, nortel...they will just dream up ever more powerful routers. The current routers can handle the load efficiently IF the backbones switch over to IPv6. IPv6 addressing reduces the size of the backbone routing tables. It is the number of separate "default free" routes in the Backbone tables that is one of the major causes of the problem. |
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kapilThe Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL | reply to moonpuppy
That's not really an accurate analogy. Just like the infamous "tubes" analogy wasn't.
More accurate would be saying that babies are drinking all the milk on grocery store shelves, so dairy farmers have to produce more milk.
There is some unknown theoretical maximum amount of milk that can be produced just like there is some theoretical, unknown limit on how much light we can stuff in strand of glass and how much glass we can manufacture, but the milk production is only, in reality, limited by the dairy farmers' willingness to get additional cows, more teat sucking devices etc.
The farmers make a living selling milk and therefore have a vested interest in continuing to meet the demand and profiting from it...otherwise the Canadian cows will step in to fill the demand.
If the farmers start complaining that their cows are overworked and can produce no more milk, when in reality their motive is to start their own direct home delivery service for milk, bypassing the grocery stores so that the consumers are forced to buy their brand and not that nasty Canadian milk...well, then that's a different matter entirely |
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| You do know the government pays farmers to NOT produce milk right? And that cows are given drugs to produce more mil even though there may be a danger in drinking milk from said cows.
That's why it is all organic milk for me, you can have the stuff with the puss in it. And your poor baby needs moms milk where mom has a healthy diet.
 please do not flame me even though i deserve it. |
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