Res wrote:
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Konstantin Svist wrote:
Res wrote:
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Konstantin Svist wrote:
Is it actually that hard, or is it that the ISPs don't really want
to invest time/money into it?
To give you an idea, a net enforcer costs arounds 100K AU$ each, now
one per PoP, thats 7 here, however the amount of p2p use, that cost
is MORE then recovered in the FIRST month alone!
Yeah, that's what I thought.. and that's pretty much my point - the
result doesn't justify the investment :)
Investment in the net enforcers, saving an average of $160K in data
costs per PoP, per month, certainly justifies the initial cost outlay,
after all you spend 100K once for a saving of 160K per month,
therefore thats a nice contribution towards expanding, employing more
staff, advertising, and of course company profit (remember... ISP's
are not around for your enjoyment,
they are a business out to make money, no profit = no business = no ISP)
But certainly it doesnt justify the investment into p2p cache units,
since policies to shape the hell out of the abusers do a good enough
job already.
oh.. whoops, misread what you wrote :P
You're right, if ISPs really cared about the customers, maybe they
could've invested a little $$ into multicast routers - which would lift
a remove a lot of uselessly-duplicated traffic. But what's the point of
thinking of what could've been :(
As I understand, one of the recent big problems ISPs are facing is that
the "regular users" are joining the ranks of "few abusers." I mean, lots
of customers visiting youtube and similar sites. You can't just block
them all/slow them all down without repercussions...
