Steve, I'd be up in arms if all I had was a 1mbps uplink :)
Having said that, the 10 mbps I get from Comcast right now is more than I need to do remote desktop, code check ins, and host of atypical uploading. I am absolutely not against good upstream rates! I do have a problem with people saying that we must/should have symmetrical connectivity simply because we don't see the market demand for that as of yet. Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 -------------------------------- http://twitter.com/kscotthelms -------------------------------- On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Steve Clark <scl...@netwolves.com> wrote: > Scott, > > Maybe if it the upstream bandwidth was there would be more applications to > use it. I know it is a real > pain to upload pics to Facebook, etc on my 1mbs uplink, or move things to > work across my VPN. > > Steve > > On 02/27/2015 02:30 PM, Scott Helms wrote: > > Daniel, > > Well, I wouldn't call using the mean a "myth", after all understanding most > customer behavior is what we all have to build our business cases around. > If we throw out what customers use today and simply take a build it and > they will come approach then I suspect there would fewer of us in this > business. > > Even when we look at anomalous users we don't see symmetrical usage, ie top > 10% of uploaders. We also see less contended seconds on their upstream > than we do on the downstream. These observations are based on ~500k > residential and business subscribers across North America using FTTH > (mostly GPON), DOCSIS cable modems, and various flavors of DSL. > > > Scott Helms > Vice President of Technology > ZCorum(678) 507-5000 > --------------------------------http://twitter.com/kscotthelms > -------------------------------- > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Daniel Taylor <dtay...@vocalabs.com> > <dtay...@vocalabs.com> wrote: > > > But by this you are buying into the myth of the mean. > > It isn't that most, or even many, people would take advantage of equal > upstream bandwidth, but that the few who would need to take extra measures > unrelated to the generation of that content to be able to do so. > > Given symmetrical provisioning, no extra measures need to be taken when > that 10 year old down the street turns out to be a master musician. > > On 02/27/2015 11:59 AM, Scott Helms wrote: > > > This is true in our measurements today, even when subscribers are given > symmetrical connections. It might change at some point in the future, > especially when widespread IPv6 lets us get rid of NAT as a de facto > deployment reality. > > > Scott Helms > Vice President of Technology > ZCorum(678) 507-5000 > --------------------------------http://twitter.com/kscotthelms > -------------------------------- > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Naslund, Steve <snasl...@medline.com> > <snasl...@medline.com> > wrote: > > How about this? Show me 10 users in the average neighborhood creating > > content at 5 mbps....Period. Only realistic app I see is home > surveillance > but I don't think you want everyone accessing that anyway. The truth is > that the average user does not create content that anyone needs to see. > This has not changed throughout the ages, the ratio of authors to > readers, > artists to art lovers, musicians to music lovers, YouTube cat video > creator > to cat video lovers, has never been a many to many relationship. > > On 2015-02-27 12:13, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > > Consider a group of 10 users, who all create new content. If each one > creates at a constant rate of 5 mbits, they need 5 up. But to > download all the new content from the other 9, they need close to 50 > > > down. > > > And when you expand to several billion people creating new content, > you need a *huge* pipe down. > > > Steven Naslund > Chicago IL > > > > > -- > Daniel Taylor VP Operations Vocal Laboratories, > inc.dtay...@vocalabs.com http://www.vocalabs.com/ (612)235-5711 > > > > -- > Stephen Clark > *NetWolves Managed Services, LLC.* > Director of Technology > Phone: 813-579-3200 > Fax: 813-882-0209 > Email: steve.cl...@netwolves.com > http://www.netwolves.com >