[119772] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: FTTH Active vs Passive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Dec 1 14:18:07 2009
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:16:52 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4B1562D8.1060902@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> 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...
>=20
s/be using/have access to/
One could make the argument that when we were doing dial-up over POTS the %=
utilization vs port speed was higher than today with packet switching to t=
he curb. People have been lamenting the lack of for-profit apps that will a=
ctually each up these 100+ mb/s residential pipes (the "killer app").=20
One could further argue that the talk of gigabit pipes to the home has been=
ushered in by the cost-effectiveness of gigabit ethernet over SONET or oth=
er technologies and this is why we are seeing such a massive increase in th=
e port speeds to customers. As a percentage of pipe available (discounting =
things like kiddie's using Torrent), I wouldn't be surprised to see that pe=
rcentage drop. (Residential broadband folks chime in please).
Deepak
