[119766] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FTTH Active vs Passive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Tue Dec 1 13:40:19 2009
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:39:20 -0800
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0912011856350.23464@uplift.swm.pp.se>
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Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
> You don't need to supply more than a gig per household,
"640K ought to be enough for anybody. " (oft mis-attributed to Bill
Gates) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
If, 10 years ago (1999) when most internet-connected homes still used
dialup, you had suggested that ISPs would be putting in gigabit services
to homes, people would have laughed. Yet today, here we are talking
about gig feeds. I wonder how much bandwidth homes will be using 10
years from now...
jc
