On 30/01/2017 12:03 PM, Simon Sharwood wrote:
NBN takeup is slow. ...
... five years ago we were told that VoD would need FTTP at
100Mbps. And now Netflix et all are doing it at 3.5Mbps ...
...
3.5 Mb/s for standard definition perhaps, depending on codec and
quality, but what of:
- higher-quality SD?
- High Definition?
- 4k?
- 8k?
- 16k?
- HDR on top of higher definition?
- whatever comes after that?
Carefully cherry-picked figures notwithstanding, the exponential rise in
demand continues.
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The anticipated service life of optical fibre is a century or more.
Building for yesterday would be incompetent or treacherous. But then,
the government involved has proven both incompetent and treacherous.
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| as any other figures.
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| --HL Mencken
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