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Re: Sorry, but espaeth is correct said by SuperWISP:It's necessarily much more expensive to deliver bandwidth to the end user via the last mile than it is to deliver it at a server farm. I know this because I'm out there every day -- on roofs, in users' homes, climbing radio towers -- to make that "last mile" link. Content providers should not be able to shift their bandwidth costs to ISPs, multiplying them in the process. See my testimony before the FCC at » www.brettglass.com/FCC/remarks.html for a detailed explanation of why. interesting, taken from your text
"I founded LARIAT -- a rural telecommunications cooperative -- to bring Internet to the community. I and other interested business owners started by borrowing a bit of bandwidth from the University to build a "proof of concept" network, and then transitioned to buying our own. At the time, a T1 line cost $6,000 a month, but we pooled our money and partnered with other providers to bring the connection into my office.
The problem, once we got it there, was how to divvy it up among all the people who were paying for it. The answer turned out to be the techology upon which I'd worked here at Stanford. We bought some of the NCR radio equipment and set up a metropolitan area network spanning downtown Laramie. As far as I or anyone else can tell, this made us the world's first WISP, or wireless Internet service provider.
Fast forward to 2003. The Internet was now well known, and the growing membership of LARIAT decided that rather than being members of a cooperative, they simply wanted to buy good Internet service from a responsible local provider. So, the Board prevailed upon me and my wife -- who had served as the caretakers of the network -- to take it private. We did, and have been running LARIAT as a small, commercial ISP ever since. But after all these years, our passion for bringing people good, economical Internet service hasn't changed. And nothing can beat the sense of achievement we feel when we hook up a rural customer who couldn't get broadband before we brought it to them -- or when we set up a customer who lives in town but has decided to "cut the cord" to the telephone company or cable company and go wireless with us. We make very little per customer; our net profit is between $2.50 and $5 per customer per month. But we're not doing this to get rich. We're doing this because we love to do it.
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so how is it that you with roots in the "telecommunications cooperative" operations and a person that took your free alocation from university bandwidth to "build a "proof of concept" network. so your not averse to taking others bandwidth as long as it innovates for YOU, BUT YOU have NOT seen fit to TURN ON MULTICATING to and from your paying end users today ?.
how is it you have not taken a very small amount of your current profits, and returned a very small amount to the free initatives in paying a few £100 per advance to the torrent java AZ/Vuse coders and related free codebases to retrofit Multicasting and a generic IP multicat tunnel for any and all P2p/torrent traffic to use TODAY, so advancing and innovating on what came before , plus then being in a position to save VAST amounts of local ,national and intercontinental bandwidth.
lets be clear on this, if it were not for the content providers (and that means eveyone that uses and contributes to thisand many other MBs etc) then there would be anyone wanting to pay for a broadband connection in the first place, we end users creat the demand, we create the content, and we pay the asking price for our connections world wide....
would you be happy for the likes of Vuse, BitTorrent, and the multitude of video P2p vendors that take our content pay for server cache and related Hardware space in every single ISPs racks, im sure you would welcome that.
but your not willing to cache the unicast torrents inside your ISP and serve them to your paying end user last mile customers if you have to buy the caching torrent kit or turn on Multicasting and pay a coder to retrofit the required code on the cheap, or even setup a simple multicast tunnel on your web side co-locations racks the for any non US users to connect to over a Multicast tunnel.
"BBC's "iPlayer" P2P software is causing a similar effect. While the BBC is not a for-profit entity" true but we end users in the UK have PAYED the cost of the production and delivery of the content, the very content your US end users want to also see and use their payed for ISP connections to get it.
the BB havbe and are still running the multicast peering to ISPs that are willing to turn ON multicating to and fromthe end users, alas the worlds ISP dont want to give the end users that multicat ability.
simply put the Multicast video and torrent/P2p fromthe like of the BBC are available, the working Multicast codebases are are there and available, and all the worlds ISPs router and ralated kit have multicast capabilitys as a generic use, BUT YOU as the ISP owner have turned it all off the the end users, your not after innovating or helping the conoperatives of today and tomorrow,your just looking after your self and will move on to other things if you can t make your cashflow THE EASY antiquated unicast IP way.
shame someinnovation, take whats already available and help this really old and underused Multicast grow, as the OWNER of the ISP and make available Multicast tunnels for the UK BBC and users to use on your local ISP network and related peered kit around the world, and tell us about it so we can use it...... |
