Like I said, set up the content producers with high speed onramps directly connected to ATHM's bone. Do I have to state explicitly that this would be by agreement with the content provider?
The physical layout of the Internet won't permit what you have in mind, at least, not yet. The DOD created the Internet to be a net rather than a lattice or other hierarchical topology for defense reasons (many paths). Because of this when an ISP sends out a packet, they just dump it out in the great "cloud" and hope it finds its way possibly through a very circuitous route, to its intended destination. ATHM can't overcome this intended fault without becoming a completely closed system (By the way we have discussed this before and it has a lot going for it). "High speed onramp" is just a figure. Trying to reify it gives you nothing. It is possible though to work with sites to improve how they get to ATHM's backbone. Companies like Yahoo are already doing this.
Yes. But it is only local in the sense that the data is contained mostly at the RDC level.
I hate to disappoint you, but the quantity of caching isn't anywhere near what is desirable. It is well known that to tweak your system to significantly improve throughput, you have to circumvent the caching servers.
The RDC level gives you little. Mostly I go out on the cloud every day. I don't get shunted by the RDC. That's true of 99% of users. The Net is a worldwide affair.
The backbone just serves to feed non-cached data to the RDCs.
The group of backbones forming the non-aerial cloud is where the action is. If you're going to cache, you are boring yourself and not using the Net.
You are saying the national backbone of ATHM should be all the backbones.
Yes. This is the goal. This is what I want the MSOs and ATHM/RR to do.
But that is oligopolistic. Whose Net is it? ATHM's or AOL's? They would have to trust each other. The DOJ decree has essentially eliminated the possibility that either monopoly or oligopoly can now exist at any level.
There are many out there who won't let that happen including government.
So first you say it is dod eat dog in the competitive world, now you say it isn't by government decree. Which is it?
It is the first "it" which you have tried to make equivalent to the second "it". That isn't my ambiguity. The government decree ensures that others won't let that happen. Others didn't need government to do this, but since they have, others will use it. There's no question that it's another mistaken government interference. Government has to learn to stay out and let the dogs do their thing. |
