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As someone who works for a company that is (partially) an ISP: we want nothing more than to be a dumb pipe. Traffic shaping and dynamic content acceleration are
by nameless912 10y ago
As someone who works for a company that is (partially) an ISP: we want nothing more than to be a dumb pipe. Traffic shaping and dynamic content acceleration are hard as hell, they barely work, and 90% of us engineers would rather not do them if we didn't have to. But the edict from on high says "optimize bandwidth for content!" and "Buzzword buzzword buzzword profits!" and the technical staff suffers.
- hooph00p 10y ago...tell me more.
- nameless912 10y agoTruthfully there's not much more I can tell you without getting into proprietary infos, but here's what I can say: because of "value-added content delivery" or something, we have to work harder. And it's kind of a giant clusterfuck most of the time.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago"Value-added", modifier noun, meaning "something utterly useless and often harmful to the customer that adds value for company by fucking said customer over".