Hi, I am all up for any service that is compelling enough to inspire end user to spend their $s to use it. Where I get super pissy is when then content provider blame us for impairing their product innovation and how the network operators are the bad guys and should spend the money to give the service away for free when they launch it because they cant / wont push the value proposition.
I do wonder who and why we are collectively upgrading our networks. At the end of the day we are in business to make money. -----Original Message----- From: christopher.mor...@gmail.com [mailto:christopher.mor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow Sent: 30 November 2010 04:46 To: Ben Butler Cc: Patrick W. Gilmore; NANOG list Subject: Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement ConcerningComcast'sActions On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Ben Butler <ben.but...@c2internet.net> wrote: > Ok, you have a point with SD vs HD which is encoded at 8 rather than 2 on our > digital terrestrial and satellite broadcasters in the UK. > > So why 24mb or 50mb access speeds, what is it actually being used for, I do > not believe that streamed video is the culprit here with most codecs doing > about ~700 kbits. why NOT 24mb or 50mb or 500mb? what applications/innovations/ideas are being left on the table because folk can't do them in a reasonable period of time with <2mbps and longer queue times on their home network? If you could provision, cheaply, more bandwidth to the end-users in a community (or really several communities) do you think there would be new applications or new services provided to these folks? Video HD or SD is just one application/service... they get lots of hype today, but tomorrow what things may be possible? -chris -------------------------------------------------------------------------- BODY { MARGIN: 0px}.footerdark { LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #001a35; FONT-SIZE: 9px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none}.blackcopy { LINE-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: none}.bluecopy { LINE-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #29aae2; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: none}.address { LINE-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px; TEXT-DECORATION: none}.footerlight { LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #667891; FONT-SIZE: 9px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none}.pinkcopy { LINE-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #ed174d; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: none} Ben Butler Director Tel: 0333 666 3332 Fax: 0333 666 3331 C2 Business Networking Ltd The Paddock, London Road, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 7JL http://www.c2internet.net/ Part of the Atlas Business Group of Companies plc Registered in England: 07102986 Registered Address: Datum House, Electra Way, Crewe CW1 6ZF Vat Registration No: 712 9503 48 This message is confidential and intended for the use only of the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient you are strictly prohibited from reading, disseminating, copying, printing, re-transmitting or using this message or its contents in any way. Opinions, conclusions and other information expressed in this message are not given or authorised by the Company unless otherwise indicated by an authorised representative independent of this message. The Company does not accept liability for any data corruption, interception or amendment to any e-mail or the consequences thereof.Emails addressed to individuals may not necessarily be read by that person unless they are in the office.Calls to and from any of the Atlas Business Group of Companies may be recorded for the purposes of training, monitoring of quality and customer services.