SimonGibson
join:2007-11-17
Crystal Lake, IL
| Pay Per Byte is a Handicap to Progress
Funny - If I pay $30 or so per month to get cable TV - Is anyone telling me I can only watch it 3 hrs per day???
So they screwed up figuring out the network capacity. Everybody bought faster computers, expecting to get blazingly fast downloads and online applications.
I pay about $50 per month for fast DSL - And I expect to be able to pull/push 100 Meg backups / work from home or whatever and not get lost connections - If I pay for 7Megabit/sec I expect to get it. If some stupid sales folks at the big carriers over sold it - Tough, fix it and eat your sales commission. If an airline overbooks seats - Guess what? - They get to know about it real quick - Customers today are savvy and will walk to the next airline counter.
The technology is fast changing; the network technology improving all the time and we go thru' teething problems. My belief is we should expect to get permanent, always on connections. The market will be driven by improved technology and faster thru' put.
The main issue is to make sure we don't end up with monopolies that slow down the progress of technology. Without that continual drive for improvement in society we wouldn't have the high standard of living and health expectations.
Want to go back to the dark ages? - Then let a few monopolies control the market place. As much as we dislike government - They are our elected representative - So it is the duty of the FCC to look out for the interests of everybody.
There - that felt better! |
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NeedforSpeed
@verizon.net
| Interesting Discussion - Just my 0.02 cents.
Cable TV service is pretty much split into two types: Video broadcast and VOD. Video Broadcast is a one way broadcast (transmit only) from the main Video Hub that bundles all the video content (channels analog or digital) along carrier fiber optics rings (sonet or dwdm), coax, fiber optics all the way to the subscriber's house. The bandwidth usage has already been calculated so customers can watch TV 24/7 and not put any stressed on the network if design properly.
Video on Demand (VOD) uses the LAN / Internet connection to obtain content from a variety of sources: carrier owned servers or external servers (netflix, webcam, slingbox, goggletub etc...). Service provider can only guesstimate on the VOD take rate. Port utilization monitoring will dictate future capacity adds. Which is extremely easy to figure out. However it's very expensive to build out network infrastructures, unless Uncle Sam would like to pitch in.
So Verizon willingness to open its network is a blessing in terms of progress. This is just the first of many steps to come. Of course Verizon will need upgrade it's wireless network that will cost billions more. We all want unlimited data usage, but we don't want to pay for. It's just a matter of time before wireless data speed surpass today's LAN connection 500Kbps - 3Mbps and LAN internet will probably increased to the 50, 100, 200Mbps.
Yes technology is expanding quite rapidly, but the challenge is still in the last mile. The future will only be faster and richer in content. The network will be built one way or another. I'm rambling now. Nuff said. |
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Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
Premium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to SimonGibson
VOD is also pre calculated as someone watching On-Demand in theory consumes no more bandwidth then someone watching the digital channels all day in normal modes.
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