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Re: Paying for delivery of packets (was about Sprint Peering, and Importance of Content)
- From: Barney Wolff
- Date: Thu Jul 11 23:36:08 2002
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:00:45PM -0700, JC Dill wrote:
>
> The problem with asymmetric pricing is that the cost of passing the packets
> is equally born by both ends. Take 2 networks that peer, one with mostly
> content, one with mostly eyeballs. The content providers pay a higher
> price *per MB* for bandwidth to their provider than the end user does, but
> both networks have equal costs in transiting the packets from the server to
> the end user.
This might be true per Mbps of capacity, but is simply not true per average
user's MB/month. The typical cable/dsl subscriber still only uses about
5-10 Kbps, averaged over a month. If lots of people start watching video
streams for much of the day, current cable/dsl rates will not survive.
--
Barney Wolff
I never met a computer I didn't like.
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