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Re: Symmetry, DSL, and all that
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Mon Mar 2 14:04:02 2015
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From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
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The backend is still symmetric. It's still something like 1.25 gigs up and 2.5 gigs down. You can only beat that going to AE.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
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From: "Fletcher Kittredge" <fkittred@gwi.net>
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Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 12:57:08 PM
Subject: Symmetry, DSL, and all that
Not a very informative discussion.
Points of fact...
From Verizon's January filings regarding 2014Q4:
1. Verizon has about eight million FIOS customers.
2. "Fifty-nine percent of FiOS consumer Internet customers subscribed
to data speeds of at least 50Mbps, up from 46 percent one year earlier."
From a Verizon press release last summer, all FIOS speeds are now
symmetric.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/verizon-fios-finally-symmetrical-upload-speeds-boosted-to-match-download/
ADSL development proceeded the development of the consumer Internet. The
original patent was filed in 1988. DSL was designed originally to deliver
video in an ISDN/ATM world. For that reason, it was asymmetric.
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