"For example, if the baseline traffic on a data center network is 1Gbps, but peaks at 10Gbps for just a few minutes at lunch time… do you wire the entire data center up with costly 10Gbps gear, or just admit that there’ll be lots of latency and packet loss at peak times?"
Heh. The article makes this a 1G or 10G choice. Haven't they heard of 802.3ad?
Illegal, no. Unethical, hell yes! I wrote to Comcast corporate, FCC, and the DOJ. Not that it will do any good but at least the urge to punch the wall has almost gone away.