I've been tracking the Wi-Fi SIP phone space for some time, and have
documented all the phones that I could find here:
http://www.mtcnet.net/~fbulk/VoWLAN.doc
It's about a 7 MB file because I've included pictures of these devices where
I could find them.
Because we just installed a SIP proxy
I'm sorry, but being a larger company requires more resources to support it.
Our upstream provider has only 3 to 5 people in their NOC during the day,
but they only serve a couple dozen ITCs. A bigger company generates more
revenue and accordingly has increased responsibilities. Largish
A look at Telegeography's bandwidth maps suggest that the African routes are
predominantly coastal.
http://www.afridigital.net/downloads/DFIDinfrastructurerep.doc
adds some more detail.
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe
Abley
Same question here.
We have a filtering appliance that filters for porn, etc based on a
subscription basis, but I've considered filtering phishing and spyware sites
for all our customers. At what point does the ISP wanting to do good
infringe upon the 'rights' of those who accidentally hurt
We're one of those user/broadband ISPs, and I have to agree with the other
commentary that to set up an appropriate filtering system (either user,
port, or conversation) across all our internet access platforms would be
difficult. Put it on the edge and you miss the intra-net traffic, put it in
This discussion is now drifting back to the one we had several weeks ago
about properly and adequately staffing the abuse desk (email, phone, and
otherwise) in spite of the temptation to take advantage of the
'efficiencies' of scale. It's beyond me how an abuse@ can afford to drop
emails via
I just saw this in today's VON FOCUS on Hardware newsletter:
RAD INTRODUCES MINIATURE ETHERNET OVER T1/T3 BRIDGE AT OFC/NFOEC
http://www.radusa.com/Home/0,6583,2519,00.html
but the link doesn't reveal anything.
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL
The majority of U.S.-based IP TV deployments are not using MPEG-4, in fact,
you would be hard-pressed to find an MPEG-4 capable STB working with
middleware.
SD MPEG-2 runs around ~4 Mbps today and HD MPEG-2 is ~19 Mbps. With ADSL2+
you can get up to 24 Mbps per home on very short loops, but if
satellite, not using ATT last-mile's infrastructure, which
initiated this thread.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Matt Ghali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 6:05 PM
To: Frank Bulk
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: ATT: 15 Mbps Internet connections irrelevant
This posting on broadbandreports.com might add some
background to your issues:
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/73818
Regards,
Frank
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris RilingSent:
Monday, April 24, 2006 3:12 PMTo: nanog@merit.eduSubject:
Quova seems to be the premier service: http://www.quova.com/
I read a story on them some time ago and I was left with the impression that
all the other players are rookies, but then again, you probably will pay
heavily for this service.
Geobytes is another one I've played with.
We're a small
While we're on the topic, perhaps I should ask for some best practices
(where 'best' equals one for every listserv member) on the use of RFC 1918
addresses within a network provider's infrastructure.
We use private addresses for some stub routes, as well as our cable modems.
Should we
USTelecom has put on a free webinar about this, with guests from VeriSign.
It might be on interest.
http://www.ustelecom.org/events.php?urh=home.events.web2006_0615
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric
A. Hall
Sent: Tuesday, June
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Frank Bulk
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 3:14 PM
To: nanog list
Subject: RE: voip calea interfaces
USTelecom has put on a free webinar about this, with guests from VeriSign.
It might be on interest.
http://www.ustelecom.org
Sometimes we can't get a hold of each other's NOCs during 'peacetime',
imagine in times of disaster!
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Mikael Abrahamsson
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 2:43 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Who wants
We are experiencing it, too. We are being told by ZONETELECOM (which
purchased WRLD Alliance Communications a few months back) that a Nortel
switch in the midwest is the cause of the trouble.
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Depending on the state you live in, the PUC generally
requires 4 to 8 hours of dialtone if it's generated from the C.O. Dialtone
generated from SLC may not be explicitly covered under the
rules.
Regards,
Frank
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel
Our small operation has outfitted our Calix shelves in the field with a
minimum 8 hours of run time. If they would run low we would re-charge them
with portable generators. We just consider it the cost of doing business.
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL
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Frank
From: Daniel Senie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 9:12 PMTo:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: nanog@merit.eduSubject: RE: Hot
weather and power outages continue
At 09:59 PM 7/24/2006, Frank Bulk wrote:
Depending on the state you live in, the PUC generally
The isp-voip list is pretty quiet, and probably not the caliber you're
looking for.
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Netfortius
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:41 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: OT: Good list for VoIP
I've
AFAIK, you don't need to have to have someone onsite to trip a breakerif
it doesn't do it automatically, there are a multitude of SCADA systems
available to manuaully flip them on. Unless, of course, the
electromechanical components that physically flip the breaker over have
failed.
Frank
GoDaddy's abuse desk is not so easy to work with...I have had two different
times that a whole /24 was blocked even though parts of the address space
were split between different providers (and customers), but GoDaddy would
hardly relent. Took over a week to get that resolved.
Frank
Apparently it was a DC power cable:
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=16fff79a-1848-41f9-
a635-ac645e423308k=83532
Too much current?
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan
Armstrong
Sent: Saturday, October 21,
I have one customer that's been having trouble (not specific to him, all of
our ISP subs send out via well-known gateways) and the message started off
with 451 Message temporarily deferred - 4.16.50 and the most recent one
was Remote host said: 451 Message temporarily deferred - [190]. When I
You could also look at Cloudshield. I was following the EveryDNS issue this
weekend and this item among the regular VON press release blast jumped out
at me:
http://www.cloudshield.com/news_events/2006_Releases/EveryDNS%20FINAL.pdf
Regards,
Frank
_
From: Frank Bulk
Sent: Friday
if upstream utilization matched downstream rates as we're
essentially paying for downstream utilization, not upstream. Are there more
pieces to the bandwidth puzzle that would start getting messed up if ISPs
and end-users were more symmetrical in their usage?
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Frank
Colm:
What does the Venice project see in terms of the number of upstreams
required to feed one view, and how much does the size of upstream pipe
affect this all? Do you see trends where 10 upstreams can feed one view if
they are at 100 kbps each as opposed to 5 upstreams and 200 kbps each, or
If we're becoming a VOD world, does multicast play any practical role in
video distribution?
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Michal Krsek
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:28 AM
To: Marshall Eubanks
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject:
You mean the NCTC? Yes, they did close their doors for new membership, but
there are regional head ends that represent a larger number of ITCs that
have been able to directly negotiate with the content providers.
And then there's the turnkey vendors: IPTV Americas, SES Americom' IP-PRIME,
and
on licensing. To be clear, it is not
turnkey for the major U.S. content providers.
Gian Anthony Constantine
Senior Network Design Engineer
Earthlink, Inc.
On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Frank Bulk wrote:
You mean the NCTC? Yes, they did close their doors for new membership, but
there are regional head
This article paints a rather dismal picture:
Despite optimistic estimates that it would take only three weeks
to repair the massive damage done to what are now said to be
eight submarine cables by the Dec. 26, 2006, magnitude-6.7
earthquake near Taiwan, reports today indicate that not one of
-hour lease. Any portal-based product for wireless
hotspots can help you out here.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Frank Bulk
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 5:40 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Wireless Network Question
Hello- I'm looking for anyone that can send me some suggestions
We found out last Thursday we were blocking that range (our customer base is
across the state line from this Midcon). Our upstream internet provider,
who manages the BGP side of things, had had their automated Bogon update
process stalled since last fall. =)
Frank
Randy:
Sorry, our upstream provider's ASN is not listed in that
filter-candidates.txt document.
Kind regards,
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Randy Bush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 4:34 PM
To: Frank Bulk
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: 96.2.0.0/16
While the hotel cannot prevent you from using Wi-Fi, but they could:
a) restrict you from attaching equipment to their internet connection
(unless you contracted for that and the contract didn't restrict
attachments) or electrical outlets
b) ask you to leave and charge you for trespassing if you
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/articlePrint.cfm?id=1310151
Is this a normal thing for Level 3 to do, cut off small, responsive
providers?
Frank
Could you please clarify that comment? USF has made it possible for us to
serve DSL to almost every customer in our exchanges.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Frank Bulk
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:50 AM
To: NANOG list
Subject: Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell
In regards to gold-plating, it makes a difference if it's average-schedule
or cost-company. If it's the latter, then yes, all actual costs are
including in building the rate base.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Frank Bulk
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
To: NANOG
Subject: Re: SaidCom disconnected by Level 3 (former Telcove property)
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Frank Bulk wrote:
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/articlePrint.cfm?id=1310151
Is this a normal thing for Level 3 to do, cut off small, responsive
providers?
Frank
Don't confuse USF with ICC. It's USF that you're contributing to directly
on your telephone bill and ICC through your long distance payments (which
relates to the att case).
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy
Davidson
Sent:
What about a worldwide clearing house where all registrars must submit their
domains for some basic verification?
Naming: For phishing reasons. I think detection of possible trademark
violations would be too contentious.
Contact info: It's fine to use a proxy to hide true ownership to the
: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 11:09 -0500, Frank Bulk wrote:
On
Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:46:47 -0700,
Douglas Otis wrote:
Even when bad actors can be identified, a reporting lag of 12 to 24
hours
While you have your friend's ear, ask him why they maintain a spam policy of
blocking complete /24's when:
a) the space has been divided into multiple sub-blocks and assigned to
different companies, all well-documented and queryable in ARIN
b) there have been repeated pleas to whitelist a certain
: Saturday, April 07, 2007 2:08 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Frank Bulk
Subject: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks
On Sat, 07 Apr 2007, Frank Bulk wrote:
While you have your friend's ear, ask him why they maintain a spam policy
of
blocking complete /24's when:
a) the space has been divided
One of the reasons that registrars are slow to take down sites that are paid
with a credit card is because there is little financial incentive to do
sothey've lost money it already, why have a department whose priority is
speed if you can hire a person to do it at their own pace and minimize
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:31:25PM -0500, Frank Bulk wrote:
I understand your frustration and appreciate your efforts to contact the
sources of abuse, but why indiscriminately block a larger range of IPs
than
what is necessary?
1. There's nothing indiscriminate about it.
I often
If they're properly SWIPed why punish the ISP for networks they don't even
operate, that obviously belong to their business customers? And if the
granular blocking is effectively shutting down the abuse from that
sub-allocated block, didn't the network operator succeed in protecting
themselves?
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 5:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks
Frank Bulk wrote:
[[Attribution deleted by Frank Bulk]]
Neither I nor J. Oquendo nor anyone else are required to
spend our time, our
That sounds like a very reasonable perspective and generally the route I
follow both as a operator and as someone who works with others.
Frank
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From: william(at)elan.net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 6:23 PM
To: Frank Bulk
Cc: nanog
@merit.edu
Subject: RE: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks
From: Frank Bulk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:20:59 -0500
If they can't hold the outbound abuse down to a minimum, then
I guess I'll have to make up for their negligence
it, block *all*
the IPs associated to the 'bad' ISP. Then at least you're consistent,
otherwise expanding to a /24 is just a half (or 1%) job or laziness.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Frank Bulk
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 10:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Abuse procedures
like a good idea, but I'm guessing few network operators
do that for their customer networks, whether that's due to lack of
centralization or cost.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Frank Bulk
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 3:49 PM
To: 'nanog@merit.edu'
Subject: RE: Abuse procedures... Reality
That's been my entire point. Network operators who properly SWIP don't get
credit for going through the legwork by other networks that apply
quasi-arbitrary bit masks to their blocks.
As I said before, if you're going to block a /24, why not do it right and
block *all* the IPs in their ASN?
Comcast is known to emit lots of abuse -- are you blocking all their
networks today?
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Frank Bulk
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:43 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:50:34PM +, Fergie
it
would save their abuse department in the long run.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Frank Bulk
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 5:10 PM
To: 'nanog@merit.edu'
Subject: Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:44:59AM -0500, Frank Bulk wrote:
Comcast is known to emit
server, and then block destination port 25 on the cable modem. For
alternative access technologies, block destination port 25 on the access
gear or core routers/firewalls.
Regards,
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Frank Bulk
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 7:48 AM
To: Mikael Abrahamsson
Cc
Please provide a pingable IP address on each block so that we can check.
Thanks,
Frank
-Original Message-
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 1:09 PM
To: 'nanog@merit.edu'
Subject: IP Block 99/8
Hi,
I am Shai from Rogers Cable Inc. ISP in Canada. We have IP block
99.x.x.x assigned to our
Duke runs both Cisco's distributed and autonomous APs, I believe. Kevin's
report on EDUCAUSE mentioned autonomous APs, but with details as hazy as
they are right now, I don't dare say whether one system or another caused or
received the problem.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
If you look at Kevin's example traces on the EDUCAUSE WIRELESS-LAN listserv
you'll see that the ARP packets are in fact unicast.
Iljitsch's point about the fact that iPhones remain on while crossing
wireless switch boundaries is exactly dead on. If you read the security
advisory you'll see that
There's a difference between folding a ring or pushing out a spoke to feed a
few customers and providing connectivity to a town.
I think building a SONET ring, or any kind of redundancy, has more to do
with a rural telco's commitment to it's customers than the bottom line.
Remember, the building
Here is a TeleGeography news article worth a quick read:
http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=19783email=html
It appears that that article assumes that capacity will not be increased by
WDM products...have those that been applied on those links already reached
the cables'
Make sense what you said, I'm just pretty sure that eventually they'll come
up with a way to put 100 to 500 waves on it.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Rod Beck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 1:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@merit.edu
You're right, they've shuffled things around.
Try this form:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/postmaster/defer.html
Regards,
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Justin Wilson
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:55 AM
I wonder how quickly applications and network gear would implement QoS
support if the major ISPs offered their subscribers two queues: a default
queue, which handled regular internet traffic but squashed P2P, and then a
separate queue that allowed P2P to flow uninhibited for an extra $5/month,
7:16 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets
On 10/22/2007 at 3:02 PM, Frank Bulk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder how quickly applications and network gear would implement
QoS support if the major ISPs offered their subscribers two queues
Here's a few downstream/upstream numbers and ratios:
ADSL2+: 24/1.5 = 16:1 (sans Annex.M)
DOCSIS 1.1: 38/9 = 4.2:1 (best case up and downstream modulations and
carrier widths)
BPON: 622/155 = 4:1
GPON: 2488/1244 = 2:1
Only the first is non-shared, so that even though the ratio is
With PCMM (PacketCable Multimedia,
http://www.cedmagazine.com/out-of-the-lab-into-the-wild.aspx) support it's
possible to dynamically adjust service flows, as has been done with
Comcast's Powerboost. There also appears to be support for flow
prioritization.
Regards,
Frank
-Original
I don't see how this Oversi caching solution will work with today's HFC
deployments -- the demodulation happens in the CMTS, not in the field. And
if we're talking about de-coupling the RF from the CMTS, which is what is
happening with M-CMTSes
:17PM -0500, Frank Bulk
wrote:
The reality is that copper-based internet access technologies: dial-up,
DSL,
and cable modems have made the design-based trade off that there is
substantially more downstream than upstream. With North American
DOCSIS-based cable modem deployments
The key thing is that it can't be too complicated for the subscriber. What
you've described is already too difficult for the masses to consume.
The scavenger class, as has been described in other postings, is probably
the simplest way to implement things. Let the application developers
Here's timely article: KDDI says 900k target for fibre users 'difficult'
http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=20215email=html
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
David Andersen
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:21 PM
Ah, but the reality is that you *think* you're paying for something, but the
operator never really intended to deliver it to you.
If anything, we need better full-disclosure, preferably voluntarily, and if
not that way, legislatively required.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
There's a large installed based of asymmetric speed internet access links.
Considering that even BPON and GPON solutions are designed for asymmetric
use, too, it's going to take a fiber-based Active Ethernet solution to
transform access links to change the residential experience to something
I would have disagree with your point on centralized AP controllers --
almost all the vendors have some form of high availability, and Trapeze's
offering, new (and may not yet be G.A) purports to be almost entirely
seamless in its load sharing and failover support.
Now that dual-band radios in
sure something can be
arranged.
(you are welcome to come look at it, but I would think would want to
actually
peek under the hood and see some stuff in real time, etc. ) March 13-16 in
Chicago.
Carl K
Joel Jaeggli wrote:
Frank Bulk wrote:
I would have disagree with your point on centralized
: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:46 AM
To: Frank Bulk
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: large-scale wireless [was: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Bulk) wrote:
If you're going with Extricom you don't need to worry about channel
planning
beyond adding more channel blankets
, make sure your front line support staff
(you DO have a helptable, right?) has the ability to update drivers on
PCs without requiring wireless connectivity. An ethernet cable should
work just fine :)
--Casey
Jeff Kell wrote:
Frank Bulk wrote:
Foundry OEMs from Meru, which also uses a single
To be clear, should one be white listing *all* the addresses suggested in
RFC 2142?
Regards,
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe
Greco
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 8:30 AM
To: Eliot Lear
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re:
Rather than go after distilled water via reverse osmosis, I think a carbon
filter would be a good place to start.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean
Donelan
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:39 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject:
I found their NOC line:
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg01583.html
Their business tech support line is 888-698-4357, they might be able to
direct you to the right person.
Also: http://kb.earthlink.net/case.asp?article=89393
I know it's lame, but as a last resort you might also want
I'm looking to do some custom monitoring of a system and the contracted NOC
only supports pings, SNMP queries, and SNMP traps. My first choice was to
send an e-mail and have their system ingest it, but that's not possible, and
the first two aren't an option, which means I'm looking to send them
Geo:
That's an over-simplification. Some access technologies have different
modulations for downstream and upstream.
i.e. if a:b and a=b, and c:d and cd, a+bc+d.
In other words, you're denying the reality that people download a 3 to 4
times more than they upload and penalizing every in trying
I
would call disproportionate ratios.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Mikael Abrahamsson
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 11:22 AM
To: nanog list
Subject: RE: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote
: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote:
Interesting, because we have a whole college attached of 10/100/1000
users,
and they still have a 3:1 ratio of downloading to uploading. Of course,
that might be because the school is rate-limiting P2P traffic. That
further
You're right, I shouldn't let the access technologies define the services I
offer, but I have to deal with the equipment I have today. Although that
equipment doesn't easily support a 1:1 product offering, I can tell you that
all the decisions we're making in regards to upgrades and replacements
I'm not aware of MSOs configuring their upstreams to attain rates for 9 and
27 Mbps for version 1 and 2, respectively. The numbers you quote are the
theoretical max, not the deployed values.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Mikael
of downstream to
upstream ports.
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Mikael Abrahamsson
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 5:41 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote:
I'm
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Mikael Abrahamsson
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:07 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote:
Except that upstreams are not at 27 Mbps
(http://i.cmpnet.com/commsdesign/csd/2002/jun02/imedia-fig1.gif
Funny, I saw nothing on Qwest's stat site, either:
http://stat.qwest.net/statqwest/perfRptIndex.jsp
http://stat.qwest.net/index_flash.html
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff
Shultz
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 12:16 AM
To:
Is this story relevant?
Undersea cable to slash Aust broadband costs
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2objectid=10486793
They seem have the sales angle all locked up.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Matthew
You're right, the major cost isn't the bandwidth (at least the in the U.S.),
but the current technologies (cable modem, DSL, and wireless) are thoroughly
asymmetric, and high upstreams kill the performance of the first and third.
In the shorter-term, it's cheaper to find some way to minimize
21, 2008 4:47 PM
To: Frank Bulk
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote:
You're right, the major cost isn't the bandwidth (at least the in the
U.S.),
but the current technologies (cable modem, DSL
Which of the telecom service providers is moaning about being a provider?
This conversation started with Time Warner's metered trial, and they aren't
doing it in response to people complaining -- I'm pretty sure there was a
financial/marketing motive here.
There are some subscribers who complain
We've figured our customer base ranges between 8 to 12 kbps/customer.
Frank
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Alastair Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:09 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Lessons from the AU model
Mark Newton
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Do you disagree?
-R.
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From: Frank Bulk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:21:08
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED], nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial
Which of the telecom
Ah, that old-age problem of designing redundancy to cover one failure, but
not two.
Frank
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Justin Shore
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 4:41 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Level3 in the Midwest is
Hear-hear: most of our customer's e-mail problems are resolved when we turn
off in the in and outbound scanning offered by their favorite AV vendor. =)
I bet we've had more support calls about e-mail scanning than the number of
viruses that feature has ever trapped for them.
And another
For power conservation the units might automatically shut down data
services.
Frank
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David Diaz
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Power outages in Florida
Being
Same concerns here. Glad to know we're not alone.
I think a transition to blocking outbound SMTP (except for one's own e-mail
servers) would benefit from an education campaign, but perhaps the pain
level is small enough that it can implemented without. One could start
doing a subnet block a
The last few spam incidents I measured an outflow of about 2 messages per
second. Does anyone know how aggressive Telnet and SSH scanning is? Even
if it was greater, it's my guess there are many more hosts spewing spam than
there are running abusive telnet and SSH scans.
Frank
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