Tech guys, this is basic routing 101, skip down to the heading “Conclusion”. Non Tech people, you will get a headache reading this, so take two aspirin and read-on. This is something you need to know. A few years ago, the carriers in Australia ganged up on Telstra and said “Hey – who put [...]
What the hell does that mean? OK – In layman's language – The Cavalry is coming……. Every so often a piece of software comes along that has the ability to change the world. Napster proved it by causing a permanent disruption to the music industries monopoly on physical distribution. Google have proved that, by [...]
In 1994, AS CEO of Australia’s fastest growing ISP, I insisted that we install W3c cache servers at each dial-in pop around Australia. And we cached the “J” server from Palo Alto to our Portland Oregon offices and then replicated that in Sydney. All DNS queries on the Ausnet network stayed in Australia [...]
In the last decade I owned and managed various ISP’s and Co-Lo businesses; I used to get a buzz out of sitting in front of the monitors and watching the MRTG graphs never peaking. (MRTG Graph “borrowed” from Wikipedia) Peaking was bad; peaking meant that customers were not getting what they were paying for, [...]
In December last year, I predicted to a leading copyright body that by April 2009, 30% of P2P would be invisible.It’s about to get a whole lot worse.The latest IETF Draft to hit the streets details P2P caching as a primary function of edge cache servers similar to Akamai.Some of us have known about this [...]
Since 1999, World War III has been raging, slowly escalating in ferocity and intensity as a result of each battle. It is a war between the content industry and the public the world over. The battle lines were drawn when the industry decided to stamp out P2P by squashing Napster. BMG, one of the [...]
Recently, the Australian Government asked for comments in an RFC titled Digital Economy Future Directions Consultation Paper.[i] We responded to 30 of the 32 questions – here is our response to Question 23 Q.23 Should the existing copyright safe harbour scheme for carriage service providers be broadened? Setting the Scene. The safe harbour scheme provides [...]