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Frank, The problem caching solves in this situation is much less complex than what you are speaking of. Caching toward your client base brings down your transit costs (if you have any)........or lowers congestion in congested areas if the solution is installed in the proper place. Caching toward the rest of the world gives you a way to relieve stress on the upstream for sure. Now of course it is a bit outside of the box to think that providers would want to cache not only for their internal customers but also users of the open internet. But realistically that is what they are doing now with any of these peer to peer overlay networks, they just aren't managing the boxes that house the data. Getting it under control and off of problem areas of the network should be the first (and not just future) solution. There are both negative and positive methods of controlling this traffic. We've seen the negative of course, perhaps the positive is to give the user what they want ......just on the providers terms. my 2 cents Rich -------------------------------------------------- From: "Frank Bulk" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 7:42 PM To: "'Rich Groves'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
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