Re: Broadband truth in advertising, redux

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Alex French <alex () evilal com>
> Date: February 9, 2010 3:49:43 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Broadband truth in advertising, redux

> > On 02/08/2010 02:14 PM, Brett Glass wrote:
> > > P.S. -- Oh, and Karl, lest I forget to mention it, any continuous
> > > connection between a cell site and a client incurs significant  
> > > overhead.
> > > The cell has to reserve codes (CDMA), time slots (TDMA), or channels
> > > (OFDM) for any client with which it has established a  
> > > conversation, and
> > > can't continuously do this for every cell phone in the vicinity.
>
> Dave,
>
> It's worth mentioning that this applies to wired broadband too; every
> connection means a session allocated on an ISP BAS, and equipment is
> usually spec-ed for X simultaneous PPPoE connections; in fact, Cisco
> charge significant license fees to ISPs based on the number of
> concurrent connections (active or not).
>
> --
> Alex



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