Jochem! It's Friday night ... Shouldn't you be out partying??!! ;)
We're home watching ID4 -- again, just for the hell of it. Well, I'm pecking away on the laptop whil Phil watches and I occasionally look up and pay attention. <grin> Erika ------------------------------------------------ >>| -----Original Message----- >>| From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>| Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:26 PM >>| To: CF-Community >>| Subject: Re: WOO HOO >>| >>| >>| Kevin Graeme wrote: >>| >>One of these days soon, the bottom will drop out of the broadband >>| >>market .. And it'll be as easy to get as a quart of milk. >>| > >>| > >>| > I wish. Unfortunately, the trends in dial up don't seem >>| to support >>| > that wish. Prices in dial up access have been gradually >>| rising over >>| > the past several years. It used to be that $5/month >>| unlimited access >>| > was common. Heck, NetZero and others were actually free. Now the >>| > average price is back to $20/month and AOL charges $24 >>| unless you take >>| > restrictions or pay for your own dial up seperately. >>| > >>| > I love my broadband connection. If I had to go back to dial up, I >>| > probably would just forego the Internet entirely. I just >>| don't see >>| > prices coming down significantly any time soon. >>| >>| >>| Depends on where you live I suppose. Some of the >>| developments in the UK are quite interesting, with BT >>| investigating the possibility of offering DSL in CO's where >>| only 16 lines are desired (used to be 200+). >>| >>| If you look at the new DSL hardware lines of Zyxel and >>| Siemens you might notice that they now feature Ethernet >>| interfaces instead of the usual ATM interfaces. That means >>| that the investment for a BBRAS ($150,000 for 1 Gbps) and >>| the associated management infrastructure is no longer >>| needed. In fact, it means goodbye to all ATM except for the >>| DSL line itself. And if you compare the prices for >>| commodity ATM hardware (STM-1 or STM-4) wih those of >>| commodity Ethernet hardware (GbE) you will see a >>| significant price difference there as well (while the >>| Ethernet is even faster). And it supports multicast :) >>| >>| On the other hand we have emerging GigaMAN infrastructures >>| in many places. Basically a shared GbE infrastructure in >>| metropolitan areas with a limited number of connection >>| points (a.k.a. the Stockholm model). That means that fiber >>| is becoming more and more available in the vicinity of mini-CO's. >>| >>| Put all this together and we are talking VDSL for prices >>| comparable to current ADSL in metropolitan areas. The >>| question is if there is any telco left with the money to do >>| this, and an interest in it (it would compete with their >>| existing DSL offerings). But the opportunities are there. >>| >>| Except in the US of course, where the FTC recently ruled >>| that ILEC's are not required to give CLEC's access to the >>| local loop. >>| >>| >>| Did I mention already that tracking the DSL market is a >>| hobby? Check out >>| http://spike.oli.tudelft.nl/adsl/maps.cfm?>>| name=latest_b for >>| the latest results in the Netherlands. >>| >>| Jochem >>| >>| >>| ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
