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
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