Recent content by Kr1ll1n

Also worth noting, the cost of upgrading infrastructure to accommodate for all of these high bandwidth apps. Let's say you are an ISP, providing telephone (POTS) and internet (DSL). All of sudden, a new site pops up, called HDDemand.com. Users can pay them $10.00/mnth, and stream unlimited...

Bear in mind, I am on the customer facing application side of the ISP house, so my knowledge in this area may be somewhat outdated, but ars explains it quite nicely. http://arstechnica.com/features/2008/09/peering-and-transit/ Traffic that stays on the ISP's network is the cheapest...

.....and *actually* understand where this guy missed the mark on numerous items, know why it isn't about making money. - had to correct myself, it's too early in the AM. As I noted earlier in the thread, I work at an ISP with rougly 1.5m residential subscribers. 1.5m residential subscribers...

Those of us that actually work for an ISP, and also understand where this guy missed the mark on numerous items.

Let me point out what's wrong with the video; The big issue is that he is not factoring in the cost of internet drains that the ISP's must incur to provide service. Having redundant connections with teir-1 peers like Level3, XO, etc.. etc.. is not cheap. A friend of mine that used to work...