iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

[alex at corp.nac.net (Alex Rubenstein)]

I think is would be short term. The home user is not going to continuously upload data. They will do an initial sync, then incrementals. 

People are doing this today with success. This is not a new thing. 



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----- Original Message -----
From: Skeeve Stevens <Skeeve at eintellego.net>
To: nanog at nanog.org <nanog at nanog.org>
Sent: Sat Sep 03 07:20:13 2011
Subject: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

Hey all,

I've been thinking about the impact that iCloud (by Apple) will have on the Internet.

My guess is that 99% of consumer internet access is Asymmetrical (DSL, Cable, wireless, etc) and iCloud when launched will 'upload' obscene amounts of gigs of music, tv, backups, email, photos, documents/data and so on to their data centres.

Now, don't misunderstand me, I love the concept of iCloud, as I do DropBox, but from an Access Providers perspective, I'm thinking this might be a 'bad thing'.