[116898] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Timmins)
Wed Aug 26 10:54:00 2009
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:54:25 -0400
From: Paul Timmins <paul@telcodata.us>
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <41A99CED-7857-4E24-B536-31493DE2EB99@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Fred Baker wrote:
>
> On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Luke Marrott wrote:
>
>> What are your thoughts on what the definition of Broadband should be
>> going
>> forward? I would assume this will be the standard definition for a
>> number of
>> years to come.
>
>
> Historically, narrowband was circuit switched (ISDN etc) and broadband
> was packet switched. Narrowband was therefore tied to the digital
> signaling hierarchy and was in some way a multiple of 64 KBPS. As the
> term was used then, broadband delivery options of course included
> virtual circuits bearing packets, like Frame Relay and ATM.
of or relating to or being a communications network in which the
bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as
for voice or data or video)
That's my humble opinion. Let them use a new term, like "High Speed
Internet".
