Archive for September, 2008

Google Needs To Buy Akamai

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

If you examine the pressure on the content distribution industry by top tier ISPs, it's clear this industry is changing. ISPs are now competing against their transit and hosting customers for content distribution business. This is a fairly bold move for ISPs, but it's clear that they're starting to question ...

Put A Fork In It - Is Skype Done?

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

For over five years, Skype has flown under the radar with their P2P based messaging system. Because of the distributed nature of P2P, they've been able to deploy a minimal amount of infrastructure to support their always-on solution. Unfortunately, we think that Skype/eBay is in for a rude awakening. As last-mile ...