[AusNOG] Mike Quigley has resigned

[Narelle]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 July 2013 14:51, Mark ZZZ Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>> I don't think it is a good idea to spend lots of time and money on
>> possibly maybes.
>>
>>
It's should be a TCO argument: building something with more forethought
means you can avoid costs that you will incur later on in the life of the
asset.

With IPv4 vs IPv6 we need to get more scale deployment in order to reduce
the overall costs we will all incur later. It's all a question of how
probable the possibilities are and balancing the risk against the cost,
taking into account all the various affects...



> The majority of what we do on networks are electronic analogues of what we
>> do "IRL" - the names of the applications are a give away e.g., eMAIL, video
>> CONFERENCING etc. The majority of human communications is unicast or
>> bidirectional, which is why unicast style applications are the dominant
>> ones. The entertainment industry might be glamorous, but it pales compared
>> to the revenue of the telecommunications industry.
>
>
> The way we consume media is evolving, and the entertainment industry will
> eventually be dragged, kicking, screaming, biting and spitting, along with
> us.
>
> Despite what some people think, there isn't sufficient bandwidth in the
> air to support the continued growth of media consumption, particularly on
> demand - that's where things like the NBN with its existing and potential
> bandwidth potentials actually matter for the future.
>
>
While I am again one of the biggest fans of multicast, the fact is that it
is complex, and it was conceived with broadcast equivalence largely in
mind: what we have today are lots of pockets of users watching niche
content, rather than large scale consumption. Except, perhaps, for the
cricket when 19yos save the day for struggling nations. I'm sure there's a
tool out there for traffic modelling that we all need which would magically
calculate when to swap from a unicast to a multicast model by IP
address/domain!

Cheers


N


-- 


Narelle
narellec at gmail.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/attachments/20130712/bf5c938c/attachment.html>