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by GCU-Empiricist
2976 days ago
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Because this requires brick and mortar industrial hardware to be logistically salable, lacking that it becomes vaporware. I think an unconscious bias may be that a bad but free connection that can negatively impact the perception of web solutions from casual users, which in the end is the revenue base for everyone here involved in B2C business models. |
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Unreliable but redundant commodity grade hardware pretty much allowed "cloud computing" to eat 99.9% of "big iron" sales.
I strongly suspect what Google does internally with software defined networking looks a lot closer to what these people are doing than the traditional "buy a small number of powerful-but-expensive entrenched vendor network hardware" approach.
This mesh is kinda the network equivalent of autoscaling or autorepairing cloud computing strategies that are so common these days. Once this grows to 2 or 3 IXP connections it won't surprise me much to find they stomp the traditional ISP model reliability-wise, and if they can build that "virtually", where they don't need much more than a bunch of somewhat transient mesh participants with a few medium reliability "super nodes" which are mostly completely remotely configurable...