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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Roland Dobbins wrote: > > > On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: > > > what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to > > the end user? > > BitTorrent. which uses all available bandwidth on the user link, and can/does play nicely with other user apps... It's not a reason for $TELCO to want to add more BW to your link though. I suppose what I was asking is: Is there a better/faster/cheaper alternative to your 2 incumbant solutions $TELCO || $CABLECO ? If there were then I bet $TELCO || $CABLECO would drop prices and speed up links... since there isn't I think we're all lucky we're not still using a 110baud coupler modem :) > > ;> > > And on-demand DVR-type things which I believe will grow in > popularity. Of course, most of those are overlays which the SPs > themselves don't offer; when they wish to do so, it'll become an > issue, IMHO. again, these are user apps that depend on the higher BW available, they don't drive the business to change, really. It seems to me that currently the DVR/on-demand folks are basically walking the ledge hoping that as they bring new features the telco's/cableco's will play nice and add bandwidth to make these services 'work'... That might not last, there certainly is no real reason that $TELCO || $CABLECO would be driven to change, aside from 'goodness of their hearts' or 'hey maybe we want to increase BW so we can offer a spiffy DVR-ish thing to our customers and get more revenue on our flagging last-mile circuits?' -Chris
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