Due to the demand being predominately in the downward direction, half-duplex (or effectively half-duplex) systems either allocate more TDMA slots or more channels to downstream, at the expense of upstream.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Thomas" <m...@mtcc.com> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 3:46:24 PM Subject: Re: Upstream bandwidth usage On 6/9/22 1:26 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: > With 430 GB versus 32 GV average down versus up usage today, according > to your article, this is still not a case for symmetrical consumer > bandwidth. Yes, the upstream usage increased slightly more than the > downstream usage. But the ratio was still so big that it would take > decades for them to join. I doubt they ever will. Consumers just don’t > have that much days up to push yet, and probably never will. > > Also, a lot of that Usage can be explained by video conferencing > during Covid, which has dropped off significantly already. > > If it's so tiny, why shape it aggressively? Why shouldn't I be able to burst to whatever is available at the moment? I would think most users would be happy with that. Mike
