[79878] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sun Apr 17 15:19:50 2005
From: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:16:04 -0400
In-Reply-To: <16994.7449.3864.236182@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:23:53 -1000
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>
> > Let's say for the sake of argument that by 2010 we want to give every
> > household 5 megabit/s on average. How could this be done with technology
> > today seen on the radar? Remember that the households should want to pay
> > for the bandwidth as well, meaning they might be willing to pay $30 per
> > month for the bandwidth part (this is kind of high, but let's go with it).
>
> fwiw, 100mb to the home costs about that in japan
>
> randy
>
Hi Randy;
Do you have any idea what sort of underprovisioning is typical for this sort
of service in Japan ? Do they really have anything like a symmetric 100 Mbps all
the way back to the backbone ?
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
