My understanding was that the whole point of iCloud is to not upload but rather use Apple's stored music files as long as you have them in your library. You have a valid point however with other similar services, like amazon's. But that's been out for a while.
--Andrey On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Skeeve Stevens <ske...@eintellego.net>wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been thinking about the impact that iCloud (by Apple) will have on the > Internet. > > My guess is that 99% of consumer internet access is Asymmetrical (DSL, > Cable, wireless, etc) and iCloud when launched will 'upload' obscene amounts > of gigs of music, tv, backups, email, photos, documents/data and so on to > their data centres. > > Now, don't misunderstand me, I love the concept of iCloud, as I do DropBox, > but from an Access Providers perspective, I'm thinking this might be a 'bad > thing'. > > From what I can see there are some key issues: > > * Users with plans that count upload and download together. > * The speed of Asymmetric tail technology such as DSL > * The design of access provider backhaul (from DSLAM to core) metrics > * The design of some transit metrics > > So basically the potential issue is that a large residential provider could > have thousands of users connect to iCloud, their connections slowed because > of uploading data, burning their included bandwidth caps, slowing down the > backhaul segment of the network, and as residential providers are mostly > download, some purchase transit from their upstreams in an symmetric > fashion. > > This post is really just to prompt discussion if people think there is > anything to actually worry about, or there are other implications that I've > not really thought of yet. > > …Skeeve > > -- > > Skeeve Stevens, CEO - eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists > > ske...@eintellego.net<mailto:ske...@eintellego.net> ; www.eintellego.net > > Phone: 1300 753 383 ; Fax: (+612) 8572 9954 > > Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve > > facebook.com/eintellego or eintell...@facebook.com<mailto: > eintell...@facebook.com> > > twitter.com/networkceoau ; www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve > > PO Box 7726, Baulkham Hills, NSW 1755 Australia > > > -- > > eintellego - The Experts that the Experts call > > - Juniper - HP Networking - Cisco - Brocade >
