> On Jan 23, 2020, at 1:25 PM, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:45 PM Hugo Slabbert <h...@slabnet.com> wrote: >> >>> This just follows the same rules as networks have always seemed to; If you >>> build it, they will come, and you'll have to build more. :) >> >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand >> > > Yup, there is also (in networking at least) suppressed demand -- I'm > sure we've all seen capacity planning discussions along the lines of: > "My 1GE is running at 95% capacity - I'm replacing it with a 10GE and > it will be around 10% used... wait?! What?! It's now at 7Gbps?! How > the hell did that happen?!" scenarios. They usedto be funny, but these > days I just find it depressing... I find it both happy and disturbing. I remember the first 2.4/2.5g links I turned up as well as the first 10g and (eventually) the first 100g links. I was leaving the house earlier this week thinking about how it used to be Mbps of traffic that was a lot and now it’s Gbps and how that’s shifted to Tbps. While it makes me feel old, it’s also something that I marvel about periodically. - jared
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