[AusNOG] News: Telstra to clamp down on peer-to-peer

[Mark Newton]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 08:26:21AM +1100, Paul Brooks wrote:

 > Applying Pareto (the '80/20 rule'),  'heavy users' are the top 
 > 20% of customers by > usage,  that are causing the 80% of
 > 'non-value add traffic'.

Where "value" is defined by someone other than the instigator
of the traffic.

I'm sure if you asked a subscriber to appraise the value of their
traffic, you'd probably get a different answer :-)

 > /me wonders how many 'heavy users' will opt-out from the trial...

Given the number of ways to outfox DPI, I suspect the answer is,
"Not many."

Telstra might have to spend a few million dollars on Cisco SCE
blades to work that out though.

  -  mark