Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore

On Apr 30, 2009, at 11:43 PM, Shane Ronan wrote:

I think it depends on the industry you are in, in the financial  
industry, no one uses MPLS clouds or VPN's over the Internet,  
everyone uses either 1G or 10G links.


I think Jack's point was that many 1G and 10G "links" are really just  
MPLS tunnels through someone else's backbone.


And even if not, they are certainly sharing the same ADMs, fibers,  
regen huts, etc.


"Shared infrastructure" has taken on a whole new meaning.

--
TTFN,
patrick



On Apr 30, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Jack Bates wrote:




Stefan wrote:

hmmm ...
http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2009/04/so_this_is_what_the_australian.html


Hmmm. "that leased lines and private WANs that your company can  
monitor and control from end to end make it easier to retain and  
improve network performance than relying on the Internet"


Are 10G leased lines (or even 1G) and private WANs common these  
days without using MPLS or some form of resource shared with  
Internet traffic? And what is the point without the ability to  
communicate with others? I thought we were well past isolated  
networks.


-Jack









Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Shane Ronan
I think it depends on the industry you are in, in the financial  
industry, no one uses MPLS clouds or VPN's over the Internet, everyone  
uses either 1G or 10G links.


On Apr 30, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Jack Bates wrote:




Stefan wrote:

hmmm ...
http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2009/04/so_this_is_what_the_australian.html


Hmmm. "that leased lines and private WANs that your company can  
monitor and control from end to end make it easier to retain and  
improve network performance than relying on the Internet"


Are 10G leased lines (or even 1G) and private WANs common these days  
without using MPLS or some form of resource shared with Internet  
traffic? And what is the point without the ability to communicate  
with others? I thought we were well past isolated networks.


-Jack






Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Stefan
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Stefan  wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Jack Bates  wrote:
>>
>>
>> Stefan wrote:
>>>
>>> hmmm ...
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2009/04/so_this_is_what_the_australian.html
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm. "that leased lines and private WANs that your company can monitor and
>> control from end to end make it easier to retain and improve network
>> performance than relying on the Internet"
>>
>> Are 10G leased lines (or even 1G) and private WANs common these days without
>> using MPLS or some form of resource shared with Internet traffic? And what
>> is the point without the ability to communicate with others? I thought we
>> were well past isolated networks.
>>
>> -Jack
>>
>
> The point of the blog I quoted was that things are not only black, or
> only white (as some have been tempted to judge - i.e. completely
> bashing the original article). To your point - we need to communicate
> with others (Internet - non QoS ...), of course, but the critical
> production traffic runs for some on top of fully monitored (not
> necessarily controlled!) networks ... still ...
>
> --
> ***Stefan
> http://twitter.com/netfortius
>

... and along the same line, but somehow parallel to the original conversation:

http://fora.tv/2009/04/15/Empowering_Internet_Users_Two_Ideas_to_Reshape_Broadband#Coming_Soon_Privately_Owned_Fiber_Optics_to_the_Home

-- 
***Stefan
http://twitter.com/netfortius



Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Stefan
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Jack Bates  wrote:
>
>
> Stefan wrote:
>>
>> hmmm ...
>>
>>
>> http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2009/04/so_this_is_what_the_australian.html
>>
>
> Hmmm. "that leased lines and private WANs that your company can monitor and
> control from end to end make it easier to retain and improve network
> performance than relying on the Internet"
>
> Are 10G leased lines (or even 1G) and private WANs common these days without
> using MPLS or some form of resource shared with Internet traffic? And what
> is the point without the ability to communicate with others? I thought we
> were well past isolated networks.
>
> -Jack
>

The point of the blog I quoted was that things are not only black, or
only white (as some have been tempted to judge - i.e. completely
bashing the original article). To your point - we need to communicate
with others (Internet - non QoS ...), of course, but the critical
production traffic runs for some on top of fully monitored (not
necessarily controlled!) networks ... still ...

-- 
***Stefan
http://twitter.com/netfortius



Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Jack Bates



Stefan wrote:

hmmm ...

http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2009/04/so_this_is_what_the_australian.html



Hmmm. "that leased lines and private WANs that your company can monitor 
and control from end to end make it easier to retain and improve network 
performance than relying on the Internet"


Are 10G leased lines (or even 1G) and private WANs common these days 
without using MPLS or some form of resource shared with Internet 
traffic? And what is the point without the ability to communicate with 
others? I thought we were well past isolated networks.


-Jack



Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Greg Schwimer
Guess we should keep a close eye on it here:

http://internetstat.us/

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Stefan  wrote:

> hmmm ...
>
>
> http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2009/04/so_this_is_what_the_australian.html
>
> --
> ***Stefan
> http://twitter.com/netfortius
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:29 PM,   wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:23:39 PDT, Greg Schwimer said:
> >> Recycled alarmism... now get back to enjoying your bout of swine flu.
> >
> > More alarmism:
> >
> >
> http://blog.wreckandsalvage.com/post/101932705/godaddy-recommends-against-purchasing-tv-domain
> >
> > :)
> >
>
>


Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Stefan
hmmm ...

http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2009/04/so_this_is_what_the_australian.html

-- 
***Stefan
http://twitter.com/netfortius

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:29 PM,   wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:23:39 PDT, Greg Schwimer said:
>> Recycled alarmism... now get back to enjoying your bout of swine flu.
>
> More alarmism:
>
> http://blog.wreckandsalvage.com/post/101932705/godaddy-recommends-against-purchasing-tv-domain
>
> :)
>



Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:23:39 PDT, Greg Schwimer said:
> Recycled alarmism... now get back to enjoying your bout of swine flu.

More alarmism:

http://blog.wreckandsalvage.com/post/101932705/godaddy-recommends-against-purchasing-tv-domain

:)


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Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Greg Schwimer
Recycled alarmism... now get back to enjoying your bout of swine flu.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:55 PM, J.D. Falk
wrote:

> 'Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent a
> year, will start to exceed supply from as early as next year because of more
> people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry
> websites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC’s iPlayer.
>
> It will initially lead to computers being disrupted and going offline for
> several minutes at a time. From 2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely to
> operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an “unreliable
> toy”.'
>
>
> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6169488.ece
>
> (I don't even know where to start.)
>
> --
> J.D. Falk
> Return Path Inc
> http://www.returnpath.net/
>
>


Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:55:44 MDT, "J.D. Falk" said:

> (I don't even know where to start.)

Seen in a /etc/motd well over 2 decades ago:

/dev/earth is 98% full. Please delete anybody you can.

(OK, a tad drastic, I admit. ;)

"When Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist, wrote the code that
transformed a private computer network into the world wide web in 1989, the
internet appeared to be a limitless resource."

WTF? I remember cursing the congestion on our T-1 link to Suranet in 1989 a lot
more often than I curse our 10G link today.  Was *anybody* seeing bandwidth as
limitless in 1989? ;)



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Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Dan Evans
>
> (I don't even know where to start.)


 You could always do what I did and get an internet surge protector that
prevents computers from "freezing" during rolling data brown-outs. The nice
banker from Nigeria I've been working with (I'm helping to recover a large
inheritance left by a dead colleague) threw one in for "free" after I gave
him my bank account info so he could wire the money. I'm expecting it to be
delivered any day now, although according to my records it should have
arrived last week. I'm sure everything will work itself out...


Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Jack Bates

J.D. Falk wrote:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6169488.ece 



(I don't even know where to start.)



I was more partial to:

"In America, telecoms companies are spending £40 billion a year 
upgrading cables and supercomputers to increase capacity,"...


We have supercomputers that need upgrading at the telecoms? And who were 
the peeps providing all this information which got distorted (or did it?)



Jack



Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Scott Weeks

--- jdfalk-li...@cybernothing.org wrote:
From: "J.D. Falk" 

'Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent a 
year, will start to exceed supply from as early as next year because of more 
people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry 
websites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC’s iPlayer.

It will initially lead to computers being disrupted and going offline for 
several minutes at a time. From 2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely to 
operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an “unreliable toy”.'

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6169488.ece

(I don't even know where to start.)
---



I know where to start:  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  

scott


ps.  I'm sure there's probably a PC way to say that, but I can't think of it at 
this time...  ;-)

Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread John Levine
>> 'Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent a 
>> year, will start to exceed supply ...

>Dear author: HEY JERKFACE, APRIL 1 IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, ...

You know, we have only ourselves to blame.

If we taped up the openings and blew all of the cruft out of the
network every 1 April like we used to, we wouldn't have this problem.

R's,
John



Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread Joe Greco
> 'Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent a 
> year, will start to exceed supply from as early as next year because of more 
> people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry 
> websites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC’s iPlayer.
> 
> It will initially lead to computers being disrupted and going offline for 
> several minutes at a time. From 2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely to 
> operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an “unreliable toy”.'
> 
> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6169488.ece
> 
> (I don't even know where to start.)

You can start by buying your PC a life vest, that way, if something bad
should happen while you're surfing, at least it won't drown.

Don't you just hate ignorant technobabble.  Some idiot has been reliably
making this prediction at least every year for the past two decades.

Dear author: HEY JERKFACE, APRIL 1 IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, NOT THE 
LAST.  GET A CLUE AND FIND SOMETHING TRUE TO SAY.

:-)

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.



Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread J. Oquendo
J.D. Falk wrote:
> 'Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent
> a year, will start to exceed supply from as early 

Can you re-send. Something seems to have stopped your entire message from
reaching my inb