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Re: FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?

  • From: Max's Lists
  • Date: Wed Jan 22 13:21:20 2003

speaking of HDSL over copper, does anyone know anything about a company
called Rose Tekephone that reportedly has an HDTV over T1 service?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Parker" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:02 PM
Subject: RE: FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed
Reflective attacks?


>
> At 09:28 AM 1/22/2003 -0800, Al Rowland wrote:
>
> >Not to mention that fact that 99.99% of current consumer connections are
> >not up to the task. Standard full-screen video digital stream is ~6Mbps,
> >HDTV requires 19.4Mbps. Don't know many consumers with T3s. ;)
>
> Drifting off-topic, but those are 'raw' data rates.  Compression
algorithms
> along with motion-estimation allow you to get full-screen video down to
> ~1.5 Mbps with not much in the way of image quality loss.
>
> That puts you into DSL/Wireless range.
>
> >As always, it gets down to doing the math, something may dot bombers
> >weren't (aren't) very good at. AOL/Time Warner is just the first major
> >example of this 'not yet ready for prime time' business plan. Not to
> >mention the effect everyone on AOL going to broadband and downloading
> >Disney clips all the time would have on their settlement plans with
> >backbone providers.
> >
> >When fiber-to-the-curb is the norm we'll be able to 'Ride the Light'
> >Until then, your mileage may vary. You might also see some change in
> >settlement plans and consumer pricing about that same time.
>
> I think you'll see it long before every house has fiber run to it.
>
> My 2 cents anyway.
>
> -Chris
>
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