I'm counting on my customer usage to increase in step with Moore's Law, a doubling every 18-24 months.
If you take a 9.6k modem connection in 1994 which was acceptable and double it every 2 years, you get 2.5 MB in 2010 - and that's what's considered acceptable broadband today. Dave Hulsebus MDK wrote: > I've been watching the thread about it with great interest. Partly > because I was wondering if anyone was going to try "my solution", which is, > to attempt to be able to deliver the bandwidth to the people who want to use > these, and have them work fine. > > Please understand, I'm not talking about a prioritizing scheme, which puts > video ahead of surfing, etc. > > I'm just talking about how we're going to keep up with the future... In > 2004 when I started, we used between 1 and and 1.5 gigs of data per customer > per month. The last time I measured it, which was a year ago, we were > up to more than 7. > > We're thinking about how we're going to meet the demands of the near > future... not managing a shortage of bandwidth delivery. I'm nowhere near > as leveraged as some of my competitors in terms of oversubscription, but > that's not an excuse. > > I'm thinking of planning on a future delivery of 4 to 6 meg per customer, > oversubscribed to around 4 to 6 to one. > > What is everyone else planning? > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
