On 1/15/08, Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ffs, stop with the crappy analogies. > > The internet is like a badly designed commodity network. Built > increasingly > cheaper to deal with market pressures and unable to shift quickly to > shifting > technologies. > > Just like the telcos I recall everyone blasting when I was last actually > involved in networks bigger than a university campus. > > Adrian > > I think no matter what happens, it's going to be very interesting as Comcast rolls out DOCSIS 3.0 (with speeds around 100-150Mbps possible), Verizon FIOS expands it's offering (currently, you can get 50Mb/s down and 30Mb/sec up), etc. If things are really as fragile as some have been saying, then the bottlenecks will slowly make themselves apparent.
-brandon
