Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Brett Glass na...@brettglass.com wrote: Netflix's arrangement isn't peeering. (They call it that, misleadingly, as a way of attempting to characterize the connection as one that doesn't require money to change hands.) 'peering' here probably really means 'bgp

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Matt Palmer
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:05:21PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: At 09:40 PM 7/14/2014, John Curran wrote: Myself, I'd call such fees to be uniform, Ah, but they are not. Smaller providers pay more per IP address than larger ones. And a much larger share of their revenues as the base fee

provisioning (was: endless pissing about vz and netflux)

2014-07-15 Thread Randy Bush
I recall phoning ATT once asking for 100m service at a commercial address and it took a swat-team of people on the phone to tell me they would be 4x/mo what I was paying.. I politely told them they were too expensive and to not schedule a 8 person conference call for a basic service level.

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread manning
regarding content, I’m not sure you and I live in the same media space, but I live in the same space as Springsteen who wrote 57 CHANNELS (AND NOTHIN' ON)” reports of TW in NYC having 2000 channels and nothing on are common. granted that major BB providers -own- a lot of content, but they

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Graham Donaldson
On 2014-07-15 12:11, manning wrote: (youtube was a grand, failed, experiment) It was? I stopped watching broadcast TV in about 2010, and watch Netflix, downloaded video, other streaming, and Youtube in roughly equal amounts. My main gripe with Netflix is overly liberal bias. But this is

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Graham Donaldson
On 2014-07-15 13:24, Ray Soucy wrote: My main gripe with Netflix is overly liberal bias. Well that escalated quickly. You're right, I should have kept my mouth shut. Sorry about that. It's just an opinion, you're all welcome to have your own opinion of it, I'm wasn't intended for debate,

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Scott Helms
Matt, IP address portability isn't really a problem, but I understand your point of view a bit better. One of the things we figured out is that ARIN allows for non-connected operators to reallocate blocks. It does frequently confuse whoever the ISP is getting their tier 1 connectivity from and

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Baldur Norddahl
On 15 July 2014 06:21, Brett Glass na...@brettglass.com wrote: Perhaps it's best to think of it this way: I'm outsourcing some backbone routing functions to my upstreams, which (generously) aren't charging me anything extra to do it. In my opinion, that's a good business move. Ah but they

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Blake Dunlap
Reality has a well-known liberal bias -Blake On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Graham Donaldson gra...@airstripone.org.uk wrote: On 2014-07-15 13:24, Ray Soucy wrote: My main gripe with Netflix is overly liberal bias. Well that escalated quickly. You're right, I should have kept my mouth

Re: Multi-Vendor Configuration Pusher

2014-07-15 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Ryan Shea ryans...@google.com wrote: I have a chunk of code for a multi-vendor configuration push tool under the Apache 2.0 license. Some of you may be interested. https://code.google.com/p/ldpush/ (as a contributor and user externally of this code)

RE: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Naslund, Steve
In common ISP language, peering is a connection between equals that is mutually beneficial so no money usually changes hands, peering connections are usually AS to AS without the ability to transit through to other AS (or at least some kind of policy that prevents you from using your peer for

RE: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Naslund, Steve
If you are a multi-homed end user and you feel that a BGP configuration for that is a big management nightmare then you probably should not be running BGP. It would take me somewhere less than 15 minutes to set this up with two carriers and unless the carrier's are at drastically different

RE: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Naslund, Steve
I am just guessing but you probably have not been in the service provider space. Peering in my experience has always required an ASN and BGP as a pre-requisite. That is because all service providers use BGP communities and various other mechanisms to control these connections. Sure you could

RE: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Naslund, Steve
Sorry to be cold about this but as high speed connectivity becomes more necessity than luxury, the market will still react. For example, I could move to the top of a mountain with no electric however most of us would not. If I was buying a home and I could not get decent high speed Internet,

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Brett Glass
Matt: Here's the thing. With physical goods, there are economies of scale in shipping and delivering them in bulk. But IP addresses are simply numbers! Since there's already a base fee to cover the fixed costs, there's no reason for the cost per IP to be different. And, in fact, good reason for

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Brett Glass
At 06:49 AM 7/15/2014, Baldur Norddahl wrote: Ah but they are charging you for it. You are paying approximately 40x as much for your bandwidth as you should be (you said you paid 20 USD/Mbps - an outrageous rate). You have a link to a place where you can buy 1 Gbps flatrate for USD 500 per

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Dave Bell
On 15 July 2014 04:51, Brett Glass na...@brettglass.com wrote: Netflix's arrangement isn't peeering. (They call it that, misleadingly, as a way of attempting to characterize the connection as one that doesn't require money to change hands.) In my book (As a network operator in the UK)

RE: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Brett Glass
At 08:48 AM 7/15/2014, Naslund, Steve wrote: The name of the game is to decongest your network for the least amount of money. I disagree with some of your other points, but on this we agree. And caching is the best way. Netflix refuses to allow it. --Brett Glass

RE: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Naslund, Steve
I can't believe that you actually believe that Brett. The reason the cost goes down as the number of IPs goes up is because these blocks are not managed address by address, they are managed as a single entity. ARIN has almost the same amount of labor and management involved whether it is a

RE: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Naslund, Steve
I don't believe either of those points. I will grant you that the LECs are near monopolies in some rural areas, but these are few and far between. Yes, a LEC may control the last mile but I can usually get circuits from a lot of carriers. A company I work for has over 50 locations mostly in

RE: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Naslund, Steve
Which is their perfect right as a business. If their service starts sucking because of it, they will not be in business long. The end user will quickly figure out the Netflix sucks no matter who your Internet provider is and poof, they will be gone. Market forces at work. Steve The name of

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Baldur Norddahl
On 15 July 2014 17:03, Brett Glass na...@brettglass.com wrote: At 06:49 AM 7/15/2014, Baldur Norddahl wrote: Ah but they are charging you for it. You are paying approximately 40x as much for your bandwidth as you should be (you said you paid 20 USD/Mbps - an outrageous rate). You have a link

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Scott Helms
Steve, I'd question you're use of the word rural if this statement is accurate, Yes, a LEC may control the last mile but I can usually get circuits from a lot of carriers. A company I work for has over 50 locations mostly in rural areas and we do not have much problem getting Sprint and

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread John Curran
On Jul 15, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Brett Glass na...@brettglass.com wrote: Here's the thing. With physical goods, there are economies of scale in shipping and delivering them in bulk. But IP addresses are simply numbers! Actually, they're not even discrete numbers, but address blocks (If there were

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread list
On 07/15/2014 07:33 AM, Naslund, Steve wrote: Here is the number one reason to have an ASN and your own addresses: If you are using your upstream provider's address space and dump them, you will have to renumber. That is a big deal for anyone with a large internet facing presence and usually

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On 7/13/2014 12:54 PM, na...@brettglass.com wrote: However, if there is any concern about either a Netflix server OR an ISP's cache being used to obtain illicit copies of the video, the solution is simple. This is a trivial problem to solve. Send and store the streams in encrypted form,

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Matthew Kaufman
If you're an ISP and you can't afford even the highest price per IP on that list, you have bigger problems than how much it costs to bring Netflix traffic to your customers. Matthew Kaufman On 7/15/2014 7:58 AM, Brett Glass wrote: Matt: Here's the thing. With physical goods, there are

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Brett Glass na...@brettglass.com wrote: At 08:48 AM 7/15/2014, Naslund, Steve wrote: The name of the game is to decongest your network for the least amount of money. I disagree with some of your other points, but on this we agree. And caching is the best

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Naslund, Steve snasl...@medline.com wrote: I think what will really drive everything is the market forces. You either provide what your end user wants or you go out of business. Hi Steve, Barrier to entry tends to negate market forces. I dislike Verizon.

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Brett Glass
At 09:30 AM 7/15/2014, Baldur Norddahl wrote: If that is the case, how would peering with Netflix help you any? It would not, and that is the point. Netflix' peering scheme (again, I take issue with the use of the term) doesn't help ISPs with high backhaul costs. Measures to reduce the amount

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Rubens Kuhl
Given your expertise seems to be wireless links, you could also backhaul using Ubiquiti Airfiber: http://www.ubnt.com/airfiber/airfiber5/ That Ubiquiti radio reaches at most one mile reliably due to rain fade. Most of our links go much farther. Wireless is our specialty and we do know our

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Scott Helms
Brett, You should investigate TVWS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_spaces_(radio) it works extremely well in your kind of scenario and at a minimum will solve your over the air data rate challenges. The release of TVWS has provided WISPs in rural areas with almost 1 GHz of unlicensed space

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Brett Glass
At 11:40 AM 7/15/2014, Rubens Kuhl wrote: Read again. You answered thinking about AirFiber 24, while he mentioned AirFiber 5, which goes much longer. Ah. I assumed that you were talking about the 24 GHz version, because we rejected the 5 GHz radio the moment we scanned the data sheet. It

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Brett Glass na...@brettglass.com wrote: At 11:40 AM 7/15/2014, Rubens Kuhl wrote: Read again. You answered thinking about AirFiber 24, while he mentioned AirFiber 5, which goes much longer. Ah. I assumed that you were talking about the 24 GHz version,

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Barry Shein
Re: Net Neutrality In the past all attempts to create a content competitor to the internet-at-large -- to create the one true commercial content provider -- have failed. For example, AOL, Prodigy, various portals, MSN, Netscape, on and on. We can split hairs about who goes on the list but the

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Brett Glass
At 12:18 PM 7/15/2014, Rubens Kuhl wrote: If you are picky enough to prefer other radios that cost more on Mbps/$, that's your call, We need reliability. That particular radio wouldn't cut it. As I've mentioned, users can get away with much less bandwidth if the quality is high, so going for

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Brett Glass
At 12:19 PM 7/15/2014, Barry Shein wrote: There exists a low and high (practical) bandwidth range within which it simply doesn't make any difference to a given business model. Very true. And there's another factor to consider. Estimates of the maximum bandwidths of all the human senses,

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Blake Dunlap
This is a lot of why I have a lot of respect for the wireless guys I know or have met that clearly know their wireless, even if some of them are wingnuts outside of the wireless domain. Wireless is Hard(tm), and doesn't really overlap a lot with other ISP knowledge sets. -Blake On Tue, Jul 15,

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Brett Glass na...@brettglass.com wrote: At 12:18 PM 7/15/2014, Rubens Kuhl wrote: If you are picky enough to prefer other radios that cost more on Mbps/$, that's your call, We need reliability. That particular radio wouldn't cut it. As I've mentioned,

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/15/2014 12:08 PM, Brett Glass wrote: At 12:19 PM 7/15/2014, Barry Shein wrote: There exists a low and high (practical) bandwidth range within which it simply doesn't make any difference to a given business model. Very true. And there's another factor to consider. Estimates of the

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Harlan Stenn
Brett Glass writes: At 12:19 PM 7/15/2014, Barry Shein wrote: There exists a low and high (practical) bandwidth range within which it simply doesn't make any difference to a given business model. Very true. And there's another factor to consider. Estimates of the maximum bandwidths of

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Brett, you are missing my point. I am no expert on wireless links and the equipment I pointed at might be garbage. But you have a backhaul problem that you need to solve. If not that equipment, then something else. You are balking up the wrong tree with Netflix. People want high bandwidth video

Net Neutrality FCC COMMENTS OF THE INTERNET ASSOCIATION

2014-07-15 Thread William Allen Simpson
http://internetassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Comments.pdf Really good, for those of us with the patience to ponder it. I tried writing my own FCC response, and was flummoxed by the difficulty. Official comment period ends today.

Re: Net Neutrality FCC COMMENTS OF THE INTERNET ASSOCIATION

2014-07-15 Thread Eliot Lear
If you want to join the millions of comments, apparently the deadline has been extended to midnight, July 18th.[1] Eliot [1] http://online.wsj.com/articles/fcc-extends-comment-period-for-net-neutrality-1405449739 On 7/15/14, 10:02 PM, William Allen Simpson wrote:

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Joly MacFie
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Brett Glass na...@brettglass.com wrote: Estimates of the maximum bandwidths of all the human senses, combined, range between the capacity of a T1 line (at the low end) and about 4 Mbps (at the high end). A human being simply is not wired to accept more input.

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Brett Glass
At 01:24 PM 7/15/2014, Doug Barton wrote: Just off the top of my head More than one person in a location, and they are watching different shows. How many do you allow for per household? Do they want to pay to be able to saturate everyone's senses simultaneously, with different

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:16 PM 7/15/2014, Joly MacFie wrote: And, in my experience, one needs around double or more of the listed bandwidth for a robust streaming connection. This is only true if the connection is of poor quality and dropped packets lead to regular 50% cuts in the data rate. Most users (and the

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Doug Barton
Brett, You've more or less accurately described the reality of the situation. Please feel free to proceed with the dealing with it suggestion that I also made as part of the post you responded to. :) Good luck, Doug On 07/15/2014 01:42 PM, Brett Glass wrote: At 01:24 PM 7/15/2014, Doug

Network infrastructure issue for Siebel CRM

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Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Rubens Kuhl
The things that are making my life difficult at the moment include the following: * Government agencies attempting to impose requirements upon us and then denying us the resources we need to fulfill them; * Government agencies trying to dictate what users can buy rather than allowing

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread George Herbert
On Jul 15, 2014, at 8:03 AM, Brett Glass na...@brettglass.com wrote: At 06:49 AM 7/15/2014, Baldur Norddahl wrote: Ah but they are charging you for it. You are paying approximately 40x as much for your bandwidth as you should be (you said you paid 20 USD/Mbps - an outrageous rate).

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:06 PM 7/15/2014, Rubens Kuhl wrote: Do you see Connect America Fund, the successor to Universal Service Fund, as a threat to US rural WISPs or as the possible solution for them ? It's a major threat to rural WISPs and all competitive ISPs. Here's why. The FCC is demanding that ISPs

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:10 PM 7/15/2014, George Herbert wrote: Layer3 runs right through Laramie. With a redundant run slightly south. What conversations have you had with them?... At first, Level3 completely refused us. Then, they quoted us a rate several times higher than either of our existing upstreams

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Fletcher Kittredge
I have stayed out of much of this, but can't help myself. Along with everything else, you are seriously misinformed about the process of becoming an ETC. It is not onerous. Please stop. You are giving rural ISPs a bad reputation. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Brett Glass

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-15 Thread George Herbert
On Jul 15, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Brett Glass na...@brettglass.com wrote: At 05:10 PM 7/15/2014, George Herbert wrote: Layer3 runs right through Laramie. With a redundant run slightly south. What conversations have you had with them?... At first, Level3 completely refused us. Then,

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Bob Evans
I think your point needs to be explained. Because anything gnment is riddled will large carrier benefiting. Look at the school discounts for internet services...pretty much just for LECs. Thank You Bob Evans CTO I have stayed out of much of this, but can't help myself. Along with

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Brett Glass
I'll just say that we've consulted legal counsel about what it would take to become an ETC, and it's simply too burdensome for us to consider. We'd need to become a telephone company, at the very time when old fashioned telephone service is becoming a thing of the past. (We enthusiastically

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Keefe John
Any ISP can tap into Erate funding. We are a WISP and lots of our school customers get Erate funding/discounts. On 7/15/2014 8:53 PM, Bob Evans wrote: I think your point needs to be explained. Because anything gnment is riddled will large carrier benefiting. Look at the school discounts for

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Brett Glass na...@brettglass.com Estimates of the maximum bandwidths of all the human senses, combined, range between the capacity of a T1 line (at the low end) and about 4 Mbps (at the high end). A human being simply is not wired to accept more input.

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Bob Evans
Oh I agree Brett. My point was for flecher. We lost business once the government school discount happened. Its an example to what you speak ofall the time red tape overhead designed to give to LEcs business. And one of my companies is a CLEC. Thank You Bob Evans CTO I'll just say that

Re: NANOG 62 - Baltimore - Call For Presentations is Open!

2014-07-15 Thread Greg Dendy
The presentation submission period for NANOG 62 is still open, although the deadline is fast approaching. It's not too late to join what's shaping up to be a great program! Thanks, Greg -- Greg Dendy Chair, Program Committee North American Network Operator Group (NANOG) On Jun 16,

VZW - fixed wireless services?

2014-07-15 Thread Ryan Finnesey
Does anyone know if Verizon is using its LTE network to offer fixed wireless services? I know Sprint was working on WiMAX hardware with cisco but I assume that was canceled when Sprint started moving to LTE. Cheers Ryan

Re: VZW - fixed wireless services?

2014-07-15 Thread Mike Lyon
Yes, they are. At least out here in Silicon Valley they are. -Mike On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Ryan Finnesey r...@finnesey.com wrote: Does anyone know if Verizon is using its LTE network to offer fixed wireless services? I know Sprint was working on WiMAX hardware with cisco but

RE: VZW - fixed wireless services?

2014-07-15 Thread Ryan Finnesey
Do you happen to know the rates or where I can find more information on the offering? From: Mike Lyon [mailto:mike.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 1:12 AM To: Ryan Finnesey Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: VZW - fixed wireless services? Yes, they are. At least out here in Silicon

Re: VZW - fixed wireless services?

2014-07-15 Thread Mike Lyon
I believe they just attach it as a regular data device on whatever data plan you pick. It's known as Verizon HomeFusion: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/homefusion/hf/main.do -Mike On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Ryan Finnesey r...@finnesey.com wrote: Do you happen to know the rates