Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-31 Thread Jared Mauch
> On May 31, 2022, at 8:41 AM, Livingood, Jason via NANOG > wrote: > > All the large DOCSIS networks of which I am aware are in fact working on > changing their spectrum plan and physical layer to enable higher US speeds > and in some cases symmetric multi-gig services. Yes, I’ve seen

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-31 Thread Mike Hammett
It can exceed 25 megs, but it isn't common. Certainly not common enough to throw hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars at the long tail. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-31 Thread Josh Luthman
>Yep. No one is forcing carriers to take USF money. They can essentially build whatever they want without USF money. Unless of course USF funds are used to over build your already existing network. This is exactly the situation I'm in. On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 5:52 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > >

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-31 Thread Mike Hammett
" Bigger is better, even if you don’t need it, reigns supreme." Hence my earlier reference to the marketing machine. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Brian Turnbow

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-31 Thread Mike Hammett
"The question I have for other operators: if you have a group of customers that subscribe to a 100Mb service, and all of them suddenly switched to a 1Gb service, would you expect an increase in overall bandwidth usage? " As someone offering up to gigabit, I wouldn't. They don't use what they

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-31 Thread Mike Hammett
" However, this isn’t exactly new… Windows used to come on something like 31 3.5” floppies at one point." But you can still get incremental Windows Updates and don't have to redownload Windows any time something changes. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-31 Thread Livingood, Jason via NANOG
> This is going to be very painful and difficult for a number of DOCSIS3 > operators, including some of the largest ISPs in the USA with multi-millions > of subscribers with tons of legacy coax plant that have no intention of ever > changing the RF channel setup and downstream/upstream

AFRINIC vote buying

2022-05-31 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Even though this relates to a whole different region of the world, I think that some (many) of you may be interested to watch this video and to learn what's been going on of late down in the AFRINIC region. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32xCurWfJo4