On 17/Mar/20 19:46, Mike Bolitho wrote:
> > I totally agree and 99.999% of the time, congestion on the Internet is > a nuisance, not a critical problem. I'm not sitting here complaining > that my public internet circuits don't have SLAs or that we run into > some packet loss and latency here and there under normal operations. > That's obviously to be expected. But this whole topic is around what > to do when a once in a lifetime pandemic hits and we're faced with > unseen levels of congestion across the country's infrastructure. I > mean the thread is titled COVID-19 Vs Our Networks. That's why I > brought up the possible application of TSP to tell some of the big > CDNs that maybe they should limit 4K streaming or big DLCs during a > pandemic. That's it. And yet I'm getting chastised (not necessarily by > you) for suggesting that hospitals, governments, water treatment > plants, power plants, first responders, etc are actually more > important during times like this. To me, sounds like a potential business case for an existing or new CDN provider focused squarely on healthcare, and other such critical services :-). As is always the case with invention, "I didn't like what I found, so I built a better one". Mark.
