3 Nov
2014
3 Nov
'14
6:53 a.m.
On 03/11/14 22:26, McDonald Richards wrote:
The days of the "any to any, open Internet" are slowly coming to an end. One small flaw in one mass produced and mass distributed piece of software (including software that runs on CPE) can easily snowball into hundreds of gigabits of traffic at the "core" of the Internet (I hate that term but I'm too tired to come up with anything else right now).
We had this same conversation when people started moving from dial-up to DSL. "OMG a single user on 1.5 Mbit/s can saturate our entire server farm bandwidth" The world didn't end. The same rules apply today that applied back then.