al_bundling

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by al_bundling 12y ago
> There are huge savings in only buying enough bandwidth to handle, say, your 95% load and not enough to satisfy all of your customers at once. It's bad engineering to run your links hot at 95%. (Here's looking at you, Comcast)
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by al_bundling 12y ago
> As I understand it the marginal cost of the first N gigabytes is approximately zilch, but N+1 gigabytes is $$$$- because they now have to upgrade the infrastructure. Missed out a step there. It's not zero then suddenly $$$$. It&#x
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by al_bundling 12y ago
For reference: wholesale bandwidth cost is about 0.1 cents per GB.
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by al_bundling 12y ago
You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. Nobody buys GB of traffic wholesale, they buy TB of traffic because a GB is literally a rounding error. What you probably meant to say was that wholesale bandwith is usually pu
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by al_bundling 12y ago
> 1000X more? Not by the source article: 50GB/$10 is $0.20/GB which is less than 2X AWS/Google's wholesale $0.12/GB. AWS/Google retail bandwidth prices are a bad comparison, as they are ridiculously expensiv
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by al_bundling 12y ago
> Netflix doesn't send data over Comcast's network directly. According to reports they do. > They connect to... was it Cogent? Cogent is one of their IP transit providers, but they have a lot of others as well. > So, Com
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by al_bundling 12y ago
Net neutrality issues are a symptom of the lack of competition in the US, but it's not all roses and sunshine in countries with robust broadband competition either. Since network netrality violations are frowned upon, eyeball ISPs have
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by al_bundling 12y ago
> I think that on the level of Netflix, they should indeed pay for special agreements. I think this is a bad idea. Firstly: This sets a hard upper limit on how much a startup can scale until the ISPs start to get to play favorites. Succe
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by al_bundling 12y ago
This is called bitstream access. It's not a very good idea if it's the only option. Bitstream access is susceptible to the lowest common denominator of access technology and is at the mercy of the infrastructure owners upgrade cyc
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by al_bundling 12y ago
> In the UK, unbundling has had a very limited effect on pricing when compared to straight-up nationalisation. This may well be, but unbundling itself has had a very large impact on competition and prices. Currently the cheapest broadban
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by al_bundling 12y ago
> In a free-market, rural availability won't improve. False. In a free market, non-profits, co-ops and other parties with lesser ROI requirements than publicly listed companies can and may build and/or provide network infrastru