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Re: cost of doing business
From: odlyzko () dtc umn edu (Andrew Odlyzko)
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 12:54:52 -0500 (CDT)
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se> wrote:
Let's say for the sake of argument that by 2010 we want to give every household 5 megabit/s on average. How could this be done with technology today seen on the radar? Remember that the households should want to pay for the bandwidth as well, meaning they might be willing to pay $30 per month for the bandwidth part (this is kind of high, but let's go with it).
Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:
fwiw, 100mb to the home costs about that in japan
We are talking of two different things here, traffic versus access bandwidth. It will be a while before the average household generates 5 megabit/s traffic. Even in Korea and Hong Kong, where the average broadband link is in the 5-10 Mbps range, average traffic is about 0.1 Mbps. The main purpose of high speed links is to get low transaction latency (as in "I want that Web page on my screen NOW," or "I want that song for transfer to my portable device NOW"), so utilizations are low. Andrew Odlyzko
Current thread:
- Re: cost of doing business Andrew Odlyzko (Apr 17)
- Re: cost of doing business Joe Abley (Apr 18)
- Re: cost of doing business Mikael Abrahamsson (Apr 18)
- Re: cost of doing business Joe Abley (Apr 18)
- Re: cost of doing business Mikael Abrahamsson (Apr 18)
- Re: cost of doing business Thomas Kernen (Apr 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: cost of doing business Thomas Kernen (Apr 18)
- Re: cost of doing business Marshall Eubanks (Apr 19)
- Re: cost of doing business Thomas Kernen (Apr 19)
- Re: cost of doing business Marshall Eubanks (Apr 19)
- Re: cost of doing business Marshall Eubanks (Apr 19)
- Re: cost of doing business Joe Abley (Apr 18)