Re: Increasing cable theft and outages

2008-02-06 Thread Michal Krsek
Hi Sean, While the conspiracy folks go crazy, cable outages are pretty much normal and increasing around the world as the price of copper increases and thieves get confused about what cables contain copper. that's why almost all cables in Prague undergound (subway tunnels) are marked as "op

Flast model users (was: Re: Lessons from the AU model)

2008-01-27 Thread Michal Krsek
Dear Mark, - Original Message - From: "Mark Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Do you think Australian ISPs haven't tried to offer US-style flat-rate services? Of course they have. And they get destroyed in the marketplace. Here's the thing that metering gives you: it stratifies the marke

Re: Content Delivery Networks

2007-08-07 Thread Michal Krsek
5) User redirection - You have to implement a scalable mechanisms that redirects users to the closes POP. You can use application redirect (fast, but not so much scalable), DNS redirect (scalable, but not so fast) or anycasting (this needs cooperation with ISP). What is slow about hand

Re: Content Delivery Networks

2007-08-07 Thread Michal Krsek
Hi Patrick, 5) User redirection - You have to implement a scalable mechanisms that redirects users to the closes POP. You can use application redirect (fast, but not so much scalable), DNS redirect (scalable, but not so fast) or anycasting (this needs cooperation with ISP). What is slow

Re: Content Delivery Networks

2007-08-07 Thread Michal Krsek
Content Delivery NetworksRod, I run a small CDN oriented to audio/video distribution in Central Europe region. You mentioned challenges that CDN are facing. There are several of these: 1) Geographic load distribution - in example, you have to have enough capacity in each distribution area that

Re: Content provider plans

2007-05-30 Thread Michal Krsek
Can someone from Google or Yahoo (or any other major provider) comment on their IPv6 plans? Few weeks ago I had interesting discussion with *unnamed* Google VIP. His answer has been: "Google engineers doesn't see need to spend money on building IPv6 infrastructure. You, as user, can motivate

CDN & ISP (was: Re: Google wants to be your Internet)

2007-01-22 Thread Michal Krsek
ack from the Internet to relativelly safe revenue area (television channel distribution via IPTV). Regards Michal Krsek

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-15 Thread Michal Krsek
I am pretty sure we are not becoming a VoD world. Linear programming is much better for advertisers. I do not think content providers, nor consumers, would prefer a VoD only service. A handful of consumers would love it, but many would not. There are already cheap and efficient ways of doin

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-12 Thread Michal Krsek
7;re becoming a VOD world, does multicast play any practical role in video distribution? Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michal Krsek Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:28 AM To: Marshall Eubanks Cc: nan

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-10 Thread Michal Krsek
Hi Marshall, - the largest channel has 1.8% of the audience - 50% of the audience is in the largest 2700 channels - the least watched channel has ~ 10 simultaneous viewers - the multicast bandwidth usage would be 3% of the unicast. I'm a bit skeptic for future of channels. For making money fr

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-10 Thread Michal Krsek
Hi Marshall, - the largest channel has 1.8% of the audience - 50% of the audience is in the largest 2700 channels - the least watched channel has ~ 10 simultaneous viewers - the multicast bandwidth usage would be 3% of the unicast. I'm a bit skeptic for future of channels. For making money fr