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Re: Broadband truth in advertising, redux
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:49:50 -0500
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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 continuousconnection 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, andcan'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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