On Dec 12, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Bill Horne <[email protected]> wrote: > At some point, the Internet will need a major overhaul. For what I do, which > is mostly email, it worked as originally designed. For what many ISP's and > content providers are attempting to do, which is near-real-time content > delivery, it can be "bent to fit" by adding ever-fatter pipes and ever-larger > buffers, at the expense (as the OP pointed out) of degrading key performance > metrics like latency.
Hey, you should check out this startup in Kendall. They're called Akamai, they're 13 years old and have ~$1B in yearly revenue, and they deliver like 30+% of internet traffic without fattening pipes or degrading latency. > My 2ยข. YMMV. It does! Gordon _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
