Bandwidth costs in the future

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: Bandwidth costs in the future
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:45:46 -0500
From: Sean Donelan <sean () DONELAN COM>
Reply-To: Telecom Regulation & the Internet
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Bellsouth provided some estimates of bandwidth costs in the future
as video on demand and high-definition video becomes more common on
the network.  "Internet" traffic is a very small part of the future
bandwidth requirements.  Voice/VOIP is completely lost in the noise.

This is a bit of a mental exercise because it assumes everything will
be unicast across the backbone.  In reality, no one is designing their
networks that way (not cable, ilec, clec, wireless, etc).

http://telephonyonline.com/iptv/news/BellSouth_VOD_costs_030706/
  Todays average residential broadband user consumes about 2 gigbytes of
  data per month, Kafka estimated, which costs the service provider about
  $1. As downloading feature films becomes more popular, they might
  consume an average of 9 gigabytes per month, costing carriers $4.50.

  The average IPTV user will likely consume about 224 gigabytes per month,
  he added, at a monthly cost to carriers of $112, a giant leap from the
  less than $5 attributed to Internet use. If that content were
  high-definition video, the average user would be consuming more than 1
  terabyte per month at a cost to carriers of $560 per month.

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