Tag: internet

EB Traffic

We estimate that in the US by 2015

  • movie downloads and P2P file sharing could be 100 exabytes
  • video calling and virtual windows could generate 400 exabytes
  • cloud computing and remote backup could total 50 exabytes
  • Internet video, gaming, and virtual worlds could produce 200 exabytes
  • non-Internet “IPTV” could reach 100 exabytes, and possibly much more
  • business IP traffic will generate some 100 exabytes
  • other applications (phone, Web, e-mail, photos, music) could be 50 exabytes

gilder is back. can i interest you in some dark fiber?

Friendly botnet

Their system, called Phalanx, uses its own large network of computers to shield the protected server. Instead of the server being accessed directly, all information must pass through the swarm of “mailbox” computers.The many mailboxes do not simply relay information to the server like a funnel – they only pass on information when the server requests it. That allows the server to work at its own pace, without being swamped.

how about a cleanup worm that auto upgrades people’s installs with fixed version of winders?

Smartphone Ending Poverty?

“You don’t even need to own a phone to benefit from one”. Part of I.D.E.’s work included setting up farm cooperatives in Nepal, where farmers would bring their vegetables to a local person with a phone, who then acted as a commissioned sales agent, using the phone to check market prices and arranging for the most profitable sale. “People making $1 a day can’t afford a phone, but if they start making more profit in their farming, you can bet they’ll buy a phone as a next step”

chipchase gets the NYT writeup.
2008-04-13:

Americans, and particularly those in lower-income groups, are deriving clear economic benefits from phones—even though low-income groups are far less likely to own a phone. if the 38% of these 45.2m low-income, bottom quintile households that do not now have phones were to start using them, and earn money at the same rate as those households that do own phones—it would add $2.9b to household incomes.

i am especially interested in the m-banking aspect. death to payday loans. somewhere, koranteng is smiling.

Analog Cable Waste

There is a dirty little secret in the cable industry. Its being kept secret not by the cable distributors, but by the big cable networks. End this practice and the United States goes from being 3rd world by international broadband standards, to top of the charts and exemplary. Make this change and Net Neutrality becomes a non issue. There is plenty of bandwidth for everyone. What is the dirty little secret ? That your cable company still delivers basic cable networks in analog. Why is this such an important issue ? Because each of those cable networks takes up 6mhz. That translates into about 38mbs per second. Thats 38mbs PER NETWORK. Transition basic cable networks from analog to digital over the next 3 years and all of the sudden there will be 100s of megabits available on the smallest cable systems and more than a gigabit of bandwidth available on the largest.

shut down the analog cable channels. they each waste 38mbps with their crappy programming

Fixing TCP congestion control

Bob Briscoe’s short-term solution is to fix the existing TCP implementation that uses Jacobson’s 20+ year old AIMD algorithm. That means the client side implementation of TCP that hasn’t fundamentally changed since 1987 will have to be changed again and users will need to update their TCP stack.

van jacobson congestion control is per-stream, so creating multiple streams gets around it. a solution is proposed, weighted TCP