Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-07 Thread Chrisjfenton
Most networks have been trying to avoid that, building out a quarterly pop thing,... problem is now its an ongoing cumulative quarterly pop across many years, With pent up frustrated consumer demand for more and more videoincluding face time on these apple devices! Iridescent iPhone

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-07 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Joel jaeggli wrote: > On 9/7/11 09:02 , Michael Holstein wrote: >> >>> I would love a world where engineering was consulted by marketing :( >>> >> >> Wouldn't be a problem is management invested based on engineering's >> recommendations. >> >> There are few problems

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-07 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 9/7/11 09:37 , valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:28:28 PDT, Joel jaeggli said: > >> The way to achieve a return on invested capital is to attract and retain >> customers who pay for a service which they find compelling. > > Only true if long-term returns on investment are

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:28:28 PDT, Joel jaeggli said: > The way to achieve a return on invested capital is to attract and retain > customers who pay for a service which they find compelling. Only true if long-term returns on investment are suitable for consideration instead of short-term returns.

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-07 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 9/7/11 09:02 , Michael Holstein wrote: > >> I would love a world where engineering was consulted by marketing :( >> > > Wouldn't be a problem is management invested based on engineering's > recommendations. > > There are few problems that money can't solve .. in this case, it's > "sure, we

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-07 Thread Michael Holstein
> I would love a world where engineering was consulted by marketing :( > Wouldn't be a problem is management invested based on engineering's recommendations. There are few problems that money can't solve .. in this case, it's "sure, we can offer unlimited bandwidth, we just need to build (x)

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-06 Thread Scott Weeks
--- v.jo...@networkingunlimited.com wrote: From: Vincent C Jones > --- br...@bryanfields.net wrote: > From: Bryan Fields > > I would love a world where engineering was consulted by marketing :( > - > > WAKE UP You're dreaming out loud... >;-)

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-06 Thread Vincent C Jones
> --- br...@bryanfields.net wrote: > From: Bryan Fields > > I would love a world where engineering was consulted by marketing :( > - > > WAKE UP You're dreaming out loud... >;-) Not necessarily...I've been in computer networking going on 40 yea

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-06 Thread Bryan Fields
On 9/5/2011 22:39, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Joel jaeggli" > >> having customers that want to use your service is rarely a bad thing. > > Ask a chief engineer at a national wireless carrier who told his > administrative > bosses that selling "unlimited" wirele

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-06 Thread Scott Weeks
--- br...@bryanfields.net wrote: From: Bryan Fields I would love a world where engineering was consulted by marketing :( - WAKE UP You're dreaming out loud... >;-) scott

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Joel jaeggli" > having customers that want to use your service is rarely a bad thing. Ask a chief engineer at a national wireless carrier who told his administrative bosses that selling "unlimited" wireless data was a Pretty Neat Idea if he thinks that's a g

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-05 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 9/3/11 04:20 , Skeeve Stevens wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been thinking about the impact that iCloud (by Apple) will have > on the Internet. > > My guess is that 99% of consumer internet access is Asymmetrical > (DSL, Cable, wireless, etc) and iCloud when launched will 'upload' > obscene amount

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-04 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Wayne E Bouchard wrote: > Okay, so to state the obvious for those who missed the point... > > The congestion will either be directly in front of user because > they're flooding their uplink or towards the destination (beit a > single central network or a set of stor

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-04 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 12:56:25PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Wayne E. Bouchard: > > > the users will screw themselves by flooding their uplinks in which > > case they will know what they've done to themselves and will largely > > accept the problems for the durration > > With shared media

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:38:40 EDT, Jay Ashworth said: > Two people making the same mistake: end-user support telephone calls don't > generally go to datacenters, do they? Maybe they've figured out how to let an AI answer the phones. All you need is text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and the script

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Wayne E. Bouchard: > the users will screw themselves by flooding their uplinks in which > case they will know what they've done to themselves and will largely > accept the problems for the durration With shared media networks (or insufficient backhaul capacities), congestion affects more than j

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Frank Bulk" > Subject: RE: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers? > The copper technologies of DOCSIS and xDSL are well established in > residential deployments and they are asymmetric by design. I don't think > ne

RE: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Frank Bulk
r, etc)? Frank -Original Message- From: Mohacsi Janos [mailto:moha...@niif.hu] Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 5:07 PM To: Skeeve Stevens Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers? In my opinion. Home networking (including personal clouds) have

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Phil Pierotti
I'm not 100% certain and have no references to back it up but I recall reading an article which described the Apple cloud music strategy as being one where for existing identified music it merely stores a reference of some kind against your account rather than actually storing an additional copy. P

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Seth Mattinen" > On 9/3/11 2:02 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > - Original Message - > >> From: "Wayne E Bouchard" > > > >> and will largely accept the problems for the durration or b) (and > >> far > >> more likely) the links apple is using will become

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/3/11 2:02 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Wayne E Bouchard" > >> and will largely accept the problems for the durration or b) (and far >> more likely) the links apple is using will become flooded or the >> systems overloaded in some way or another in which ca

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Skeeve Stevens wrote: Hey all, I've been thinking about the impact that iCloud (by Apple) will have on the Internet. My guess is that 99% of consumer internet access is Asymmetrical (DSL, Cable, wireless, etc) and iCloud when launched will 'upload' obscene amounts of

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sep 3, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Wayne E Bouchard" > >> and will largely accept the problems for the durration or b) (and far >> more likely) the links apple is using will become flooded or the >> systems overloaded in some way or another

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Wayne E Bouchard" > and will largely accept the problems for the durration or b) (and far > more likely) the links apple is using will become flooded or the > systems overloaded in some way or another in which case the customers > will say, "MAN, this *SUCKS*

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
If you're worried about the problem of tens of thousands of users simultaneously trying to upload files to a "central point" then I'm not the slightest bit concerned about the network as a whole. In this circumstance, one of two things will happen and possibly both, depending: either a) the users w

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Seth Mos
Op 3 sep 2011, om 19:49 heeft Jimmy Hess het volgende geschreven: > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote: > >> My guess is that 99% of consumer internet access is Asymmetrical (DSL, >> Cable, wireless, etc) and iCloud when launched will 'upload' obscene amounts >> of gigs of m

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote: > My guess is that 99% of consumer internet access is Asymmetrical (DSL, Cable, > wireless, etc) and iCloud when launched will 'upload' obscene amounts of gigs > of music, tv, backups, email, photos, documents/data and so on to their data >

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
I think the effect will be limited unless Apple give alot more space away for free. there arny many iphones/pads/pods with just 5GB Neil On 3 Sep 2011, at 12:22, "Skeeve Stevens" wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been thinking about the impact that iCloud (by Apple) will have on the > Internet. >

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers? Date: Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 10:17:40AM -0400 Quoting Jay Ashworth (j...@baylink.com): > Gambling means that sometimes you lose. Alas, the costs won't be on > Apple. > > This seems to be an ongoing situation: carriers

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:20:13 -, Skeeve Stevens said: > My guess is that 99% of consumer internet access is Asymmetrical (DSL, Cable, > wireless, etc) and iCloud when launched will 'upload' obscene amounts of > gigs of music, tv, backups, email, photos, documents/data and so on to their > idata

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Jay Ashworth
> I'm not saying that people haven't being doing itŠ Dropbox is an exampleŠ > but you add millions of iPads, iPhones, iPod Touches and OSX Lion's out > there and that means a hell of a lot of new traffic. Especially when you're at the end of a small hose. Comparatively. What's Oz's aggregate ban

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Skeeve Stevens
he Experts that the Experts call - Juniper - HP Networking - Cisco - Brocade -Original Message- From: Jared Mauch Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 08:55:44 -0400 To: Alex Rubenstein Cc: Skeeve Stevens , "nanog@nanog.org" Subject: Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Skeeve Stevens
: Andrey Khomyakov Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 08:52:37 -0400 To: "nanog@nanog.org" Subject: Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers? >My understanding was that the whole point of iCloud is to not upload but >rather use Apple's stored music files as long as you have them in your

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Skeeve Stevens" > I've been thinking about the impact that iCloud (by Apple) will have > on the Internet. Aw, c'mon; what a boring Whacky Weekend thread... :-) > So basically the potential issue is that a large residential provider > could have thousands of

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Jared Mauch
I was thinking the same thing. People have been dealing with this for years. File sharing has had the same properties in the access networks for years now. Jared Mauch On Sep 3, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > I think is would be short term. The home user is not going to continuous

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Andrey Khomyakov
My understanding was that the whole point of iCloud is to not upload but rather use Apple's stored music files as long as you have them in your library. You have a valid point however with other similar services, like amazon's. But that's been out for a while. --Andrey On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 7:2

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Alex Rubenstein
- From: Skeeve Stevens To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sat Sep 03 07:20:13 2011 Subject: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers? Hey all, I've been thinking about the impact that iCloud (by Apple) will have on the Internet. My guess is that 99% of consumer internet access is Asymmetrical

iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Skeeve Stevens
Hey all, I've been thinking about the impact that iCloud (by Apple) will have on the Internet. My guess is that 99% of consumer internet access is Asymmetrical (DSL, Cable, wireless, etc) and iCloud when launched will 'upload' obscene amounts of gigs of music, tv, backups, email, photos, docum