[132669] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Nov 30 01:25:33 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <90938DE9-4952-4A7C-8F89-62E878EC55C2@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:22:56 -0800
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 29, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2010, at 10:51 PM, Ben Butler wrote:
>=20
>> In the Uk, we used to have 2MB DSL, and business providers like =
myself would happily provide it on the basis of CBR 2Mbit and we did'nt =
care what you did with it. 2Mbit is more than enough for streaming and =
I challenge anyone otherwise.
>=20
> I say otherwise.
>=20
> So do many customers who want 720 or 1080 lines on their TV.
>=20
You can stream 1080p/5.1 128khz over 2mbps at high quality using codecs =
that were available 2 years ago.
(VP6, VP7 can do this, for example).
However, yes, 2mbps is at the low end of acceptable today since many =
households want more than one
1080p stream at a time.
Owen
