On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Warren Bailey wrote: > I don't see how operators could tolerate this, honestly. I can't think > of a single provider who does not oversubscribe their access platform... > Which leads me to this question : The vast majority of the traffic I saw was served from the Akamai farm at an upstream provider, so the pain that was felt 'on the backbone' was mitigated somewhat by that. jms