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Re: The 100 Gbit/s problem in your network


From: joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:12:11 -0800

On 2/8/13 5:23 AM, fredrik danerklint wrote:
- Well, as it turns out, we don't have that kind of a problem.

- You don't?

- No, we do not have that kind of a problem in our network.
  We have plenty of bandwidth available to our customers,
  thank-you-every-much.

- Do you have, just to make an example, about 10 000 customers
  in a specific area, like an city/county or part of a
  city/county?

- Yes, of course!

- Does these customers have at least 10 Mbit/s connection to the
  Internet?

- Yes! Who do you think we are, like stupid! Haha!

- Could all those 10 000 customers, just to make it theoretical,
  hit the 'play'-button on their Internet-connected-TV, at the same
  time, to watch the latest Quad-HD movie?

The media market has fragmented, so unless we're talking about the first week in February in the US it's not all from one source or 3 or 5.

So far the most common delivery format for quad HD content online rings in at around 20Mb/s so you're not delivering that to 10Mb/s customer(s).

On the other hand, two weekends ago I bought skyrim on steam and it was delivered, all 5.5GB of it in about 20 minutes. That's not instant gratification but it's acceptable.
- Yes. Oh wait a minute now! This is not fair! Damn. We're toast.





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