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How would a rural WISP "get some datacenters" on its network? Sorry, I'm not grasping your previous comment.
If you have the problem that peering is getting very one-sided, the solution is to get the other side as well. So a rural ISP should try to expand into an area with cheap power and offer low-cost hosting and bandwidth to attract servers.
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How would a rural WISP "get some datacenters" on its network? Sorry, I'm not grasping your previous comment.
If you have the problem that peering is getting very one-sided, the solution is to get the other side as well. So a rural ISP should try to expand into an area with cheap power and offer low-cost hosting and bandwidth to attract servers.
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> With the rise of streaming, peering arrangements are more lopsided than ever and ISPs are actually having to pay for their own internet access. Don’t most ISPs cache this sort of content closer to their customers? Netflix at least offers to install hardware that does this.
YouTube and Netflix cache boxes are important for smaller ISP's. Their cache performance can literally make or break the monthly P&L. That said, I haven't heard about other OTT services offering a caching appliance. And there are more and more OTT streaming services coming. It's great from a consumer perspective, but it's going to be challenging for smaller players.
I was visiting my SO's parents in Portland for the holidays when this happened. Their cable TV stopped working for at least two days and we all got an emergency services text with the local emergency number because 911 wasn't going to work. (At least their Internet through CenturyLink remained working.) This also happened to coincide with them receiving a notice of a $50/month increase on their bill from CenturyLink,…
> This is what happens when you treat IT like a cost center and don't provide the necessary funds to tackle technical debt and keep your services up and running: Especially now with cordcutting becoming the norm and traditional cable subscription number dropping, large providers are scrambling to find ways to extract profit. With the rise of streaming, peering arrangements are more lopsided than ever and ISPs are act…
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> until we discovered it's successor Which is?
Ensuring all layer 2 domains are loop free by design and moving all redundancy to layer 3 and routing protocols.
Impossible, unfortunately, or we wouldn't need STP.
> and moving all redundancy to layer 3 and routing protocols.
Not always possible either, sadly. Works well for new deployments, can difficult to retrofit into older deployments depending on the scale and applications involved.
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I don't think that's fair to say. Billions of people unlock their phone or log in to their computers every morning and everything works, pretty much all of the time.
If you're a hipster in a major city near fiber, sure, it all works great. For the rest of us, no, daily failures are the reality.