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| OC-768 / STM-256x Let's just put a federal bill in to establish a network built on OC-768 / STM-256x networks.
We have the technology, and it's already been in physical testing periods. Let's finish it off and establish this great new technology. At this point, with every technological advancement we've made, we need to provide the means to support it.
I believe the basic broadband rate should be 100mbit
That's just me, but I think more will fall along this course as technology advances, and technology brings us to a full front, where space and speed is necessary to be part of this evolution.
As of December 2007, AT&T has deployed 50,000 wavelength-miles of OC-768 in its Internet/MPLS backbone network [1]. OC-768 SONET interfaces have been available with short-reach optical interfaces from Cisco since as early as 2006. Infinera made a field trial demonstration data transmission on a live production network involving the service transmission of a 40Gb/s OC-768/STM-256 service over a 1,969 km terrestrial network spanning Europe and the U.S. | |
| I agree 100%. I'd clarify that it should be 100Mb *symmetrical* and have complete network neutrality. IE, I can run whatever I want - email server, web server, game server etc. Also be provided with 4-6 static IP addresses (IPV6 is fine). | |
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Why stop there?
Why not OC-3072?
»www.dfs.org/digital.html
There are companies using Infinera gear on their backbones right now, although 10 Gbps cards are more likely the standard.
Assuming your 40 Gbps example, let's do the math:
Let's presume you live in the bandwidth saturated city of Megopolis where *everyone* has a 100 Mbps Internet connection to his home. How many customers will saturate a 40 Gbps backbone?
40 Gbps = 4000 Mbps
40000 Mbps / 100 Mbps = 400 customers
Do you see where I am going?
You aren't going to be seeing true 100 Mbps Internet anytime soon. Even if you had a 100 Mbps link to your house from your ISP, how much do you think you could ever actually use, even on an OC-3072 backbone based Internet?
Yes, you could build provide higher line rates on an over-subscription based model. Would it be better than what we have now? I don't know if it would be, and I certainly am not against the experiment, but you can never really utilize any bandwidth that exceeds the narrowest choke point.
Could you better offer broadcast services such as TV over IP? Probably, but only because you would rely on high bandwidth private lines to get the aggregate content to local distribution points and sustain individual connections from there, or use multicast (which I will be the first to admit that I know nothing about).
As the venerable Mr. Scott was famed to say: "Ye cannae change the laws of physics!" | |
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