reelbigfish
join:2002-06-06
Boston, MA | reply to Ex_Bell_Tech
Re: If only 5% generate 60% of the total traffic...
It is dedicated up to the DSLAM at which point it is aggregated and from then on out the bandwidth is shared. It is the nature of the internet, somewhere you have to share bandwidth. With cable it is at the node, DSL at the DSLAM. |
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Skeedatl
Ah, push it - push it real good
Premium
join:2007-12-26
The Cloud | But my understanding is there is more total throughput available to the DSLAM than equivalent channel capacity to a node, meaning that it's harder for a few users to hammer an entire DSLAM while a few users can saturate cable upstream channels. |
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dynodb
Premium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN | Even if the DSLAM isn't congested (and this can also happen), the ISP trunks and trunks between it and the DSLAM can be.
Yeah, yeah- I know. 'Just add more bandwidth' is always the standard reply here, but doing so is neither easy or cheap. |
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HoserMcMoose
join:2003-07-26
Kitchener, ON
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
| said by dynodb  :Yeah, yeah- I know. 'Just add more bandwidth' is always the standard reply here, but doing so is neither easy or cheap. If they don't want to add the capacity then they should SELL that capacity.
If I were to buy a dozen eggs from you and paid full price for them, I would be pretty ticked off if you gave me only 8 eggs because you didn't have enough chickens to fill demand.
Bell is selling bandwidth to their wholesale ISPs at a fixed rate with NO provision in the contract to arbitrarily limit that bandwidth, but they are doing just that. They are in blatant violation of their contract and if the CAIP fails with their CRTC appeal they can probably win against Bell is contract court.
Unfortunately the latter would likely take 3+ years to go through  |
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