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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 > > -- > \\\|||/// \ StarNet Inc. \ Chris Parker > \ ~ ~ / \ WX *is* Wireless! \ Director, Engineering > | @ @ | \ http://www.starnetwx.net \ (847) 963-0116 > oOo---(_)---oOo--\------------------------------------------------------ > \ Wholesale Internet Services - http://www.megapop.net > >
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