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 t

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

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

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 eas

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 Intern

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

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

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 :) pgpzi6scz9Xvb.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

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 tr

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 collea

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,"...

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

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

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. > >

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

Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

2009-04-30 Thread 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 ini