Re: modeling residential subscriber bandwidth demand

2019-04-02 Thread Robert M. Enger
An article was published recently that discusses the possible impact of Cloud-based gaming on last-mile capacity requirements, as well as external connections. The author suggests that decentralized video services won't be the only big user of last-mile capacity.

Re: net neutrality and peering wars continue

2013-06-20 Thread Robert M. Enger
Perhaps last-mile operators should A) advertise each of their metropolitan regional systems as a separate AS B) establish an interconnection point in each region where they will accept traffic destined for their in-region customers without charging any fee This leaves the operational model of

Re: Time Warner Cable YouTube throttling

2013-03-06 Thread Robert M. Enger
1) You can use wireshark or other monitor to determine the IP address that your video stream is originating from. 2) Upstream traceroutes to that address are probably not of that much interest. The downstream path (carrying the video from the server to your house) can follow a different

Re: The 100 Gbit/s problem in your network

2013-02-08 Thread Robert M. Enger
Perhaps the solution is to have a 400Gbit/s problem :-) http://newswire.telecomramblings.com/2013/02/france-telecom-orange-and-alcatel-lucent-deploy-worlds-first-live-400-gbps-per-wavelength-optical-link/

Re: best way to create entropy?

2012-10-11 Thread Robert M. Enger
On 10/11/2012 5:08 PM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: in the past, i've done many different things to create entropy - encode videos, watch youtube, tcpdump -vvv /dev/null, compiled a kernel. but, what is best? just whatever gets

Re: Comcast 1, Verizon 0 [was: Comcast vs. Verizon for repair methodologies]

2012-08-20 Thread Robert M. Enger
Lucky that any form of publicity works! This lady http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/11/AR2005081102101.html got her OSP cable issue printed in the Washington Post. And, as I recall the follow-up article, even that did not result in a prompt repair of her

Re: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-09 Thread Robert M. Enger
That ATT has stopped provisioning protection fiber for automatic restoral is mind boggling. That our crack (or on crack) govt contracting/emergency-preparedness staff didn't demand protected facilities for 911 is another mind boggling issue. That there is no over-under wide-area back-up

Re: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-09 Thread Robert M. Enger
, Robert M. Enger wrote: That ATT has stopped provisioning protection fiber for automatic restoral is mind boggling. That our crack (or on crack) govt contracting/emergency-preparedness staff didn't demand protected facilities for 911 is another mind boggling issue. This costs $$$ and usually

Re: Gigabit speed test anybody?

2009-03-25 Thread Robert M. Enger
I turned-up a pair of 10GigE circuits a while back (with a different, unnamed carrier). They didn't perform too well. When I pushed them for assistance with testing, they revealed that they had multiple IPERF transponders scattered throughout their network. They were not open to the public,

Re: Gigabit speed test anybody?

2009-03-25 Thread Robert M. Enger
. Frank -Original Message- From: Robert M. Enger [mailto:en...@enger.us] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:23 PM To: er...@easystreet.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Gigabit speed test anybody? I turned-up a pair of 10GigE circuits a while back (with a different, unnamed carrier