[AusNOG] Comindico routing

Campbell, Alex Alex.Campbell at dtdigital.com.au
Wed Apr 23 13:35:20 EST 2008


Yep.  My point though is that TPG can save a fair bit of money by only
buying expensive bandwidth for HTTP, and cheap bandwidth for the rest of
their traffic.  It's important that HTTP seems responsive as that's what
most users care about.


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Stephens [mailto:richard.stephens at neural.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 1:29 PM
To: Campbell, Alex; jay binks; Daniel Thoroughgood; ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: RE: [AusNOG] Comindico routing

I think he was saying that from an ISP's perspective, there isn't much
point to proxying HTTP for the sake of saving bandwidth, as the
bandwidth saved would be little in terms of the total bandwidth
required.

-Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net on behalf of Campbell, Alex
Sent: Wed 23/04/2008 1:26 PM
To: jay binks; Daniel Thoroughgood; ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Comindico routing

> the whole proxy thing is kinda odd actually, being that ive
> seen figures around that HTTP traffic is now such a low
> percentage of bandwidth...  why bother.  I guess they still
> figure its 'enough'

HTTP traffic might be a low percentage of overall bandwidth, but it is a
very high percentage of what most (non-technical) users care about.


-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net] On
Behalf Of jay binks
Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 12:48 PM
To: Daniel Thoroughgood; ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Comindico routing

surely there are better ways of achieving this in your routers,

simply differentiating the route based on TCP port 80 would get 85% of
their clients..
sure people could bypass it, but it wouldn't be in their interest to do
so in the case your proposing.
It would also have the upside of people being able to do host overrides,
and not breaking some sites.

the whole proxy thing is kinda odd actually, being that ive seen figures
around that HTTP traffic is now such a low percentage of bandwidth...
why bother.  I guess they still figure its 'enough'

Jay



On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Daniel Thoroughgood
<Daniel.Thoroughgood at staff.tsninternet.com.au> wrote:


        From what I understand TPG use their proxy more for segregating
        bandwidth than they do for caching.
       
        As I understand the proxies are on ranges that are advertised to
the
        "good" bandwidth supply so that customers browsing remains
relatively
        unaffected regardless of how hard they run the "bad" bandwidth
supply.
       



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