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| Funny mail from DTV today Yes, I've tried the DTV on-Demand beta and well, its a bit clumsy. However, today is the first time I've recieved an official email from DTV saying DTV on-demand has arrived.
Well folks, expect this to add to the network capacity demands.
I work for an ISP and in the capacity management group and yes, running out of bandwidth is for real so don't go around saying it is being used to "cry wolf" or gain some other goal.
The reason why the growth was seen as "unmanageable" as scoffed at in the article, was because growth WAS growing at a rate that was predicted to be unmanageable at the time. However, the rate of growth has subsided as the novelty of internet video has died down.
On the other hand, once content companies start to "push" videos to consumers over the same hardware(TV) that consumers are used to seeing it on, its quite possible the problem will once again surface.
Hopefully they will be doing some throttling on their side so as to limit the damage to all involved.
As an ISP, we could always choose to blackhole their AS number or IP blocks while holding their content ransom.  | | |
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| said by DSLTech5:As an ISP, we could always choose to blackhole their AS number or IP blocks while holding their content ransom. Good idea. That should really piss off your customers and help efforts to bring net neutrality into law.
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