[79880] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sun Apr 17 15:28:07 2005
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:27:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <7252882A3289F94F8549EBE49F032175E83459@wtc-msg012.teldta.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Malayter, Christopher wrote:
> I think you're very wrong here. For packet delivery of video based
> services, I could see a home using 100mb/s between voice, video, and
> data within the next 12-24 months. All of the product roadmaps I've
> been looking at contain "How to get 100mb/s to the home", "How do we
> push BRAS/Multicast deployment closer to the edge", "What is the roadmap
> for converged services past triple play?"
Really? 100 megabit/s would be six simultanious HDTV feeds (mpeg2)... I
don't see any other content that is constant high bandwidth? And in my
calculations I used 5 meg as the average, meaning that your 100 meg would
mean that peak bw usage should be much higher to compensate for anyone who
just happens not to look at 6 TV channels at the time?
The question is also about converged networks, what do we converge past
data, video and voice?
100 meg to the home is no problem as long as each user is only using a few
hundred kilobit/s (which seem to be the norm around the world right now on
these networks), it's when each user is using much more than that we run
into scalability problems (and monetary problems).
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
