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April 23, 2006

P2P: Peer to Peer and Network costs

I'm not sure I was clear on the root issue that prompted my Growing-Pains-of-the-Video-Web article (though reading the links from that post will help...).

The short (short) version: although P2P technologies relieve scalability and cost problems for the originating server(s) - which is good for scaling the Internet, they don't help at all with the Network infrastructure congestion and cost issues, which is not so good.

There are some extensions and exceptions to that (for example, P2P in corporate LAN sort of helps shift some of the costs), but by and large, the reason that
some ISPs, University sys admins , et al, are crying foul: it costs them time and money to deliver value for someone else.

And these are only the leading indicators...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The leading indicator probably also indicates the next round of innovation at the internet infrastructure level, maybe there is a need for another level above the physical topology to optimize it for bandwidth hog applications, p2p is but one of the alternatives.

Who knows, maybe it will be cache and proxy at the headend/co level for objects with a high size x download frequency factor; maybe they can charge premium for more bandwidth(Cox has been doing this by charging $20/mo extra for 15Mb download vs 5Mb standard offering but that probably give my packets a higher priority only in my neighborhood).

I guess if there is enough applications(that are legal) to make me feel an extra 20 bucks a month is worth it, and if that math also works out for my access provider, I am sure my packets will be chauffeured around over the proverbial HOV lane. But for now the cable guys are too focused on their own video products and see anything not house brand as competition, leaving them with little incentive to help us geek and leading indicator consumers who pride ourselves in not paying too much...

Sree Kotay said...

zy5y, good points. Question is: who should pay?

From a pipe provider perspective, I'm sure they don't care (much), as long as somebody does.

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