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Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers
From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 16:08:24 -0700
On 5/23/22 3:43 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
I think a gig is not an unreasonable target… It’s 100Mbps plus adequate headroom for the likely oversubscription models and the occasional downloads that are modern day reality. Nobody is going to consistently use 1Gbps, but the difference in wire time for a large download between 100Mbps and 1Gbps is significant. Making 1Gbps available in today’s network technology isn’t significantly harder nor is it any more expensive than making 100Mbps available when you consider oversubscribed bandwidth which is inherent in today’s residential models. I’m not so unreasonable as to suggest dedicated gig CIR everywhere, but something close to 100Mbps CIR with 1G burstability isn’t an unreasonable target IMHO. Anything over 1G gets more complicated and more expensive with available technology today, though that silly 2.5G stuff is not unlikely to gain traction in the residential aren in the near future. 10G or 40G are pretty absurd because the average residence can’t possible make realistic use of it… Most residences have a 1G bottle neck to the modem.
I agree that it probably doesn't change much for the ISP's (my rural ISP installing fiber apparently disagrees tho). The thing is that if you're talking about downloads, the game manufacturers will just fill to whatever available capacity the pipes will give so it probably won't ever get better.
Maybe there a Next Big Thing that will be an even bigger bandwidth eater than video. But I get the bigger limitation these days for a lot of people is latency rather than bandwidth. That of course is harder to deal with.
Mike
Current thread:
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers, (continued)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Aaron Wendel (May 24)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Michael Thomas (May 23)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Thomas Nadeau (May 23)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Michael Thomas (May 23)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers David Bass (May 23)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Michael Thomas (May 23)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Thomas Nadeau (May 23)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Owen DeLong via NANOG (May 23)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Michael Thomas (May 23)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Owen DeLong via NANOG (May 23)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Michael Thomas (May 23)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Owen DeLong via NANOG (May 24)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Kord Martin (May 25)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Mike Hammett (May 31)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Livingood, Jason via NANOG (May 26)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Andrew Odlyzko via NANOG (May 26)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers babydr DBA James W. Laferriere (May 26)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Dave Taht (May 27)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Jared Mauch (May 29)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Sean Donelan (May 30)
- Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers Josh Luthman (May 31)