[25834] in resnet
Re: CATV and internet bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cal Frye)
Wed Jan 26 13:43:20 2011
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:42:56 -0500
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From: Cal Frye <cjf@calfrye.com>
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On 1/26/11 1:19 PM, Crowe, Sheila wrote:
> We have seen a
> definite noticeable increase in our bandwidth consumption at peak times
> and I’m thinking that a lot of that traffic is streaming video.
Yep. Half our traffic is streaming video. Last year we were discussing
wiring plans for a new residence hall. We customarily bring coax into
every room, but do not provide any campus-wide service. Students may
contract with the local cable company for service if they wish. At the
time of that discussion, out of some 2500 residential students, seven
were cable customers. We put the coax in anyway.
>
> What is the next big thing in TV? Are students/users going to continue
> to watch TV via “traditional” means like CATV (probably not)? And if
> not, what are we going to do to meet/mitigate the demands and effects on
> our bandwidth?
Probably not ;-) We're going to have to increase our bandwidth. If your
faculty, like ours, assign video "readings" from YouTube or other common
sources, you can't even separate the recreational video from the
academic. Plan accordingly.
--
Best regards
-- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College
Mudd Library, x.56930 -- CIT will NEVER ask you for your password!
www.calfrye.com, www.oberlin.edu/cit/
"The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some
extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops
instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be." ---
George Orwell.
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