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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Google wants to be your Internet
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:47:04 -0800 Roland Dobbins <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> > > The advantage of providing caching services is that they both help > preserve scare resources and result in a more pleasing user > experience. As already pointed out, CAPEX/OPEX along with insertion > into the network are the current barriers, along with potential legal > liabilities; cooperation between content providers and SPs could help > alleviate some of these problems and make it a more attractive model, > and help fund this kind of infrastructure in order to make more > efficient use of bandwidth at various points in the topology. > I think you're more or less describing what already Akamai do - they're just not doing it for authorised P2P protocol distributed content (yet?). Regards, Mark. -- "Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly alert." - Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"
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