[132654] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement ConcerningComcast'sActions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Mon Nov 29 23:48:47 2010
In-Reply-To: <FD55067F70105D4BBDBE7FC036661C00015D667B7D1C@EXCHANGE.atlasbiz.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:45:56 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Ben Butler <ben.butler@c2internet.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Ben Butler <ben.butler@c2internet.net> wrote:
> Ok, you have a point with SD vs HD which is encoded at 8 rather than 2 on our digital terrestrial and satellite broadcasters in the UK.
>
> So why 24mb or 50mb access speeds, what is it actually being used for, I do not believe that streamed video is the culprit here with most codecs doing about ~700 kbits.
why NOT 24mb or 50mb or 500mb? what applications/innovations/ideas are
being left on the table because folk can't do them in a reasonable
period of time with <2mbps and longer queue times on their home
network? If you could provision, cheaply, more bandwidth to the
end-users in a community (or really several communities) do you think
there would be new applications or new services provided to these
folks?
Video HD or SD is just one application/service... they get lots of
hype today, but tomorrow what things may be possible?
-chris
