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Bittorrent declares war on VoIP, gamers • The Register
Peer to Peer goes nuclear. Now using UDP instead of TCP to handle transfers. The supporters of Net Neutrality continue to ignore the lesson of the tragedy of commons.
Delusions of Net Neutrality – Andrew Odlyzko
Excellent essay by the master contrarian.
On Video as a driver of the Net: "Two centuries ago, newspapers so dominated the traffic carried by postal services, accounting for about 95% of the weight. But at the same , newspapers provided only about 15% of the postal revenues."
On the real issue: "Communications service providers do have a problem. But it is not that of a flood of video. Instead, it is … the erosion of their main revenue and profit source … voice."
Officials Step Up Net-Neutrality Efforts – WSJ.com
"AT&T says consumer broadband traffic on its network has doubled in the last two years alone. Broadband customers are using 40% more bandwidth each year. Time Warner estimates that 5% of its users account for 50% of the bandwidth usage"
Nyquist 2007 Predictions Revisited
It’s time to take a look back at 2007 and see how our predictions fared. (See “Nyquist Predictions for 2007“)
Who Pays for the Online Video Boom?
Everyone talks about the explosion in Video traffic. Everyone talks about the explosion in the bandwidth required to carry it. No one talks about who is going to pay for it. There is one likely source: transit bandwidth inflation.
Nyquist Predictions For 2007
Prediction is an entertaining activity better suited for stimulating discussion than providing an absolute outlook on the future. Therefore, the bolder and more controversial, the better. Keep that in mind as you read and respond.
Net Neutrality War Heating Up
It’s pretty clear that the AT&T (T ) and Bellsouth (BLS) merger has turned into a proxy war over Net Neutrality, with Yahoo (YHOO) and Google (GOOG) spearheading the effort in a naked attempt to keep their distribution costs near zero. Correspondingly, Washington bloodsuckers lobbyists on both sides are gearing up.
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Peer to Peer – The Stowaway Traffic
Source: Cachelogic
Peer to Peer (P2P) traffic is the stowaway traffic of the net. It is latency and QoS insensitive and happy to fill broadband unused capacity. The big growth rate on the above chart gives P2P the illusion of being important- The reality is it is just being efficient.
What Matters About The Apple iPhone
The big deal isn’t the iPhone itself, which is what the mainstream investment, gadget and tech media is focusing on. It’s the way that it will fundamentally challenge how carriers have coupled services with connectivity with a hardware distribution monopoly.
SIPlified Content Distribution
Wading through my morning reading I happened upon an Acme Packet (APKT) white paper that did a good job explaining my apprehension about Akamai (AKAM) and how their business might be commoditized. In the long term, do SIP and managed media sessions replace the media caching model?
