[AusNOG] ubiquitous peering

[Mark Delany]

> What seems really shortsighted of the NBN is that there's basically no
> provision for directly serving content to the end user out of the POI, and
> looking at most of the sites even if the NBN wanted to allow it they're
> going to be severely limited by lack of power and space with the sites
> they've chosen.

Does this depend on a) whether having content (and content exchange)
at the POI is obvious and compelling; b) whether NBNCo should be
aiding in the solution to this need or leaving it to content
specialists and commercial pressures and c) whether the NBNCo can do
this much more efficiently than commercial entities can?

I think you'd need to have solid answers to all three before you could
form an opinion on NBNCo involvement. And frankly, the further up the
stack the NBN reaches, the much more contentious and risky it becomes.

Furthermore, the viability of proximate data may only become
compelling much later in the rollout schedule when most premises are
connected. Say, in 5-7 years time. This seems like sufficient time for
commercial players to provision adjacent facilities and for RSPs to
make (or change their) L2/L3 decisions at the POI interconnect as a
business case emerges.


This also might be fertile ground for aggregators. Could they partner
with CDNs and offer that as a service to their RSPs? Then it would be
the aggregators and CDN players making decisions about locating their
content with a fair amount of collective buying power.


Mark.