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| lost concept Is it a lost concept that it is not a bandwidth crunch, but a cost problem.. ie the bandwidth people are demanding cost too much to make a clear 5-10x monthly fee on the price charged versus what isps pay for the bandwidth each month (a closely guarded secret) ?
Once you get up in the 10+megabits down, 5+ megabits up, we're talking about hundreds of gigabytes per month per subscriber, so can that be delivered for $29.95-59.95 (unlimited, all you can eat)? Well, the best the incumbents can come up with is calling the apocalypse a bandwidth crunch... more a cost crunch because lack of competition and investment in tier-1 - tier-3 providers. |
| Or someone will invent new technology:
IBM (NYSE: IBM) Latest News about IBM researchers are touting a new, tiny optical transceiver chipset that can move data at speeds up to 160 GB per second, which is eight times faster than previous optical components.
The new chipset generates fast data transfer rates because it uses light pulses to move data instead of sending electrons over wires. If the infrastructure is in place to do it, the new technology can enable one to download a typical feature-length high definition film in a single second, according to IBM.
For most consumers, however, this new chipset is only a glimpse of the future. The first use of this technology will most likely show up in business computing solutions well before consumers get a chance to move movies at the speed of light. |
