On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
> > On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Christian Kuhtz wrote: > > > >> > >> So, there was a time when everyone said 'good grief, what would > >> anyone do with 1.5mbps', and where in turn engineered bitrates ended > >> up being several orders of magnitude lower. In fact, we all were > >> worried what would happen to our POPs and backbone when 1.5mbps > >> consumers showed up in volume back in the '98 timeframe. > >> > > > > oops ;) my point wasn't that bandwidth wasn't necessary over X > > speed, it > > was that the main motivator for consumer purchase was no long > > bandwidth > > but price alone. > > > > Sorry for the confusion. > > It's ok. We're all cornfused. > > But, seriously, if all that emerged and mattered today is 'value > brand', isn't it just indicative of the fact that consumers just > haven't found the next cool bw annihilating thing yet? I doubt this most likely... and video-on-demand sorts of things seem like the next problem child for bandwidth on the local link. (atleast in the short term) > is part of a general trend, unless this industry has reached a mature > plateau. (which would be very sad, imho). just wait for ipv6 and toasters with webservers! :) Actually, as more things get a network stack I imagine more interconnection will occur requiring more bandwidth and taxing the infrastructure even more :)