----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Armstrong" <li...@memetic.org>
> Statistics and graphs i've seen offlist have been very helpful, and > suggest that 1000 100mbit customers is doable on 1GE. Probably. > Atleast, today. Next year's (decade?) launch of the YouView platform in > the UK should increase usage a lot, not to mention a service like > Netflix starting in the UK. We have some movie streaming services, but > they generally suck and are quite low bitrate. The short version is: if you oversubscribe, you *will* eventually have Busy Hours, just like telcos. The question is: how often. Telcos have books that tell them this... Cheers, -- jr 'Royal Wedding' a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274