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[ NNSquad ] IPsphere Concerns - Net Max Out in Two Years? - Bonding for Speed
Greetings. A few items from the news and Net, noted from Dave Farber's IP list: First, Dave and others have expressed serious concerns about the IPsphere Forum ( http://www.ipsphereforum.org ) -- and I agree with those concerns -- with some good related postings in IP by Bob Frankston ( http://tinyurl.com/yvldcn ) and Steve Goldstein ( http://tinyurl.com/2xsbj9 ). Such a project may be most problematic not so much in terms of its own activities per se, but rather in terms of its impacts on the open Internet and ISP arguments to policymakers. On the subject of ISPs and policymakers, it has been suggested that a new study ( http://tinyurl.com/2pssjv ) postulating severe Internet bandwidth problems within a couple of years, might be used by ISPs as fodder to justify draconian traffic management on a scale that would make the current situation look like happy days incarnate by comparision. Of course all such predictions must be taken with a grain of salt at the very least, but the trends predicted are certainly worth seriously considering. Finally, as Thomas Leavitt points out ( http://tinyurl.com/yovh2q ), reasonably affordable routers with dual WAN interfaces are becoming more common, allowing the user to achieve higher aggregate speeds by subscribing to multiple ISP service circuits. Unfortunately, for many (most) subscribers, the main benefit would be largely in the downstream direction. Upstream would still be pretty dismal for most consumer lines, since, to paraphrase on old Billy Preston song, "nothing plus nothing makes nothing" ... indeed. --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator