On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Skeeve Stevens 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.
In my opinion. Home networking (including personal clouds) have to change
the brain damaged model of asymmetric tail technologies. Giving back the
original peer-to-peer nature of networking the asymmetricity of the
access technologies will not be tolerable in such a level (1:10) we have
today. Maybe 1:2 should be more acceptable.
You don't have to worry bout this changes, but access provider cannot
claim any longer 100MBps (while upload speed ~10 Mbps), but probably 60-70
Mbps (with upload ~ 30 Mbps).... They have to retune access services.
Best Regards,
Janos