iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

[Skeeve at eintellego.net (Skeeve Stevens)]

I'm not saying that people haven't being doing it? Dropbox is an example?
but you add millions of iPads, iPhones, iPod Touches and OSX Lion's out
there and that means a hell of a lot of new traffic.

?Skeeve

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 08:55:44 -0400
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex at corp.nac.net>
Cc: Skeeve Stevens <skeeve at eintellego.net>, "nanog at nanog.org"
<nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

>I was thinking the same thing. People have been dealing with this for
>years. File sharing has had the same properties in the access networks
>for years now. 
>
>Jared Mauch
>
>On Sep 3, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Alex Rubenstein <alex at corp.nac.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.