Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

["Alexei Roudnev" <alex () relcom net>]

> So imagine a residential area all pulling digital video over wireless.
> Sound familiar? Ironically close to TV! (yet so different)
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> What I can't understand is why multicast hasn't just gone gangbusters into
> use yet. I see it as a really pent-up capability that, in light of
Because multicast standards was written by academic idiots. -:) Very
difficult to use and full of unused features.

(Do not believe? Read RSVP protocol - not exactly multicast but not far away
from it).

And because multicast protocols (unfortunately) are not easy to implement.
It excuse this standards and their authors.

I can predict one more 'skype' like company, with really robust protocol,
catching multicast market. Something like 'peer to peer multicast' -:).




> broadband video, etc., is just going to have to break wide open soon.
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>                       Ross Hosman
>                       <rosshosman              To:      Steve Sobol
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you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?
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>                       05/12/2005 02:16
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> Not pointing any fingers but many of you think these
> small ISP's are just going to die off instead of
> adapt. Wireless is becoming a better and more reliable
> technology that in the future will be able to provide
> faster service then FTTH. I know of atleast one small
> ISP in Michigan that went from dial-up to deploying
> wireless. With WiMAX coming out I think you will see a
> number of smaller ISPs switching to it as a service.
> It is also much cheaper to deploy a wireless network.
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> Me personally, I think wireless is the future for
> residential internet/tv/phone.
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> Ross Hosman
> Charter Communcations
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> --- Steve Sobol <sjsobol () JustThe net> wrote:
> > Fred Heutte wrote:
> > > (1) There will be a market for independent ISPs as
> > long CLECs
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> > I think a more appropriate term would be ALEC
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> > (anti-competitive local exchange carrier)
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> > ...That having been said, the problem with the small
> > guys providing access is
> > they can't generally achieve the economies of scale
> > that allow them to compete
> > with the big guys.
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> > I'm on a Charter cablemodem, 3mbps down x 256kbps
> > up, $39.95/month. Verizon is
> > building out FTTH in this area and they're going to
> > be offering 5x2 for $39.95
> > or 10x5 for $49.95, IIRC. Those are all residential
> > prices, but Charter's
> > actually pretty competitive on business rates too.
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> > And yes, there are people who value service over
> > price, but the price
> > differential is only going to get worse.
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