Hi Richard & others -
With Comcast already "measuring" the broadband usage of individual accounts, how long might it be before there's some sort of "metering / fee-for-high downloads ?"
Also, it there not an opportunity for a serious "overloading" issue IF millions might eventually begin serious use of Internet Downloads of 1080p ?
Thanks.
eli
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stevekaden
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You mean we might push out a few billion spam emails??? LOL.
There is a need to continue to build the infrastructure - to get speed way up. I hear parts of Europe deliver 100mb internet. Verizon via FiOS claims that in areas of the East Coast (or so my install tech said) and that I should expect that on the west coast.
The natural progression is capacity will rise with demand - if there is an overall climate for that. Read as....maybe not so much during a depression.
As the speed goes up - capacity goes up and hopefully we all will move to fast local drops combined with super fast speeds on the main links - after all Glass fiber has no know limits beyond the technology driving and sensing the photons. Present maximums are extremely fast (I haven't researched that lately).
Then there is local caching, multicasting and other technique to minimize impacts. So....let's hope for the best on that, Full HD and HD audio!
There is a need to continue to build the infrastructure - to get speed way up. I hear parts of Europe deliver 100mb internet. Verizon via FiOS claims that in areas of the East Coast (or so my install tech said) and that I should expect that on the west coast.
The natural progression is capacity will rise with demand - if there is an overall climate for that. Read as....maybe not so much during a depression.
As the speed goes up - capacity goes up and hopefully we all will move to fast local drops combined with super fast speeds on the main links - after all Glass fiber has no know limits beyond the technology driving and sensing the photons. Present maximums are extremely fast (I haven't researched that lately).
Then there is local caching, multicasting and other technique to minimize impacts. So....let's hope for the best on that, Full HD and HD audio!
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stevekaden
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A quick google search found this....from 1999 !!
http://www.wireworld.com/wirenews/art0701.htm
The i-21 network is the first in the world designed to be able to carry more than one petabit (1,000 terabits per second) of traffic, and it will offer managed bandwidth and IP-based services on an unprecedented scale.
That represents an enormous capacity. I tend to think the sky is the limit.
http://www.wireworld.com/wirenews/art0701.htm
The i-21 network is the first in the world designed to be able to carry more than one petabit (1,000 terabits per second) of traffic, and it will offer managed bandwidth and IP-based services on an unprecedented scale.
That represents an enormous capacity. I tend to think the sky is the limit.