tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9291001.post5577163713110399774..comments2023-11-02T12:15:47.411+00:00Comments on Net neutrality in Europe: “Adding bandwidth is cheaper than scarcity allocation”?chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9291001.post-56284254957378845352010-11-27T01:58:42.853+00:002010-11-27T01:58:42.853+00:00Felten and Wagter seem to specialize in ludicrous ...Felten and Wagter seem to specialize in ludicrous arithmetic. <br /><br />Not long ago, they offered the claim that Jacobson's Algorithm balanced bandwidth consumption across users, a claim of such absurdity it single-handedly accounted for a 20% increase in hospital emergency room admissions as computer scientists violently rolling about on the floors of their offices upon reading it sustained multiple serious rib injuries.*<br /><br />The problems with this recent exercise in Onion math are manifold:<br /><br />1. Since when is the transit network's outer edge (POP to IXP) the most congested part of the Internet?<br /><br />2. Who says there is always dark fiber in the Internet's most congested region begging to be lit up?<br /><br />3. Adding capacity doesn't alleviate congestion when there remains a backlog of traffic eager to use it, which is always the case during peak-hour uses elastic applications.<br /><br />4. Many QoS features are built-in to modern IP routers, and it costs nothing to turn them on.<br /><br />5. Application demand for bandwidth inherently grows faster than the supply.<br /><br />6. What about mobile?<br /><br />Chris, really, these people are the worst kind of quacks.<br /><br />*poetic licenseRichard Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12130321354450503253noreply@blogger.com