> On Feb 27, 2015, at 20:58 , Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > > > > On 27/Feb/15 19:48, Naslund, Steve 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. > > The neighborhood getting together on Facetime to plot how to spend their > days after the husbands have gone off to work comes to mind. > > But wait... > > Mark.
Even in that case, Mark, you have a conference call where each person is sending a stream out to a rendezvous point that is then sending it back to N people where N is the number of people in the chat -1. So the downstream bandwidth will be N*upstream for each of them. Owen
