Re: Making interconnection agreements between networks more dynamic

2017-05-23 Thread Steven Tardy
> On May 23, 2017, at 2:07 PM, Pedro de Botelho Marcos > wrote: > > consider > acquiring extra "bandwidth as a service" that is available on demand just > when one needs it, Wasn't this the initial promise of SDN? Hand wave. Magically connected endpoints. All QoS'd and bandwidth-guaranteed co

Re: 300+ms of hotel wifi bufferbloat - peaking at 1.5 sec!

2015-05-30 Thread Steven Tardy
There's a corollary of the bufferbloat phenomenon: buffer drain time. It's not the size of the buffer, but how long it takes to empty. And US ISPs continue to say "customers don't want upload speed". If the ISP upload speed was symmetric you'd likely never notice the 1-2MB of buffers. I guess w

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-12 Thread Steven Tardy
ou to consider? Can you elaborate on: It costs Netflix as little as possible and the ISP as much as possible. If your ISP isn't tall enough for Netflix, Akamai has a lower barrier of entry. Have you let Akamai give you a local cache? why or why not? Steven Tardy, maybe I'm missing/

Re: LX sfp minimum range

2012-01-27 Thread Steven Tardy
then one day no longer gets link. swapping to a different fiber pair restores link. can't remember SX-MMF-SX failing after years of service. -- Steven Tardy Systems Analyst Information Technology Infrastructure Information Technology Services Mississippi State University s...@its.msstate.edu