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Re: Google wants to be your Internet

  • From: Roland Dobbins
  • Date: Sat Jan 20 23:29:25 2007
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On Jan 20, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Mark Smith wrote:

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?).

Yes, and P2P might make sense for them to explore - but a) it doesn't help SPs smooth out bandwidth 'hotspots' in and around their access networks due to P2P activity, b) doesn't bring the content out to the very edges of the access network, where the users are, and c) isn't something which can be woven together out of more or less off-the- shelf technology with the users themselves supplying the infrastructure and paying for (and being compensated for, a la FON or SpeakEasy's WiFi sharing program) the access bandwidth.

It seems to me that a FON-/Speakeasy-type bandwidth-charge compensation model for end-user P2P caching and distribution might be an interesting approach for SPs to consider, as it would reduce the CAPEX and OPEX for caching services and encourage the users themselves to subsidize the bandwidth costs to one degree or another.

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