On 03/02/2015 02:19 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote:
The backend is still symmetric. It's still something like 1.25 gigs up and 2.5
gigs down. You can only beat that going to AE.
Truth is, once the user is achieving what they consider to be acceptable
performance they don't care if it is symmetric or not.
Not a very informative discussion.
Points of fact...
>From Verizon's January filings regarding 2014Q4:
1. Verizon has about eight million FIOS customers.
2. "Fifty-nine percent of FiOS consumer Internet customers subscribed to data speeds
of at least 50Mbps, up from 46 percent one year earlier."
Eight million FIOS customers does not even come close to representing the bulk of users
out there. In fact, it does not even represent the majority of "high speed"
customers out there.
>From a Verizon press release last summer, all FIOS speeds are now symmetric.
And no one cares. I don't even see Verizon commercials crowing about how great
it is to have symmetry. If customers loved it that much don't you think they
would market that way?
Hi Steve,
I live in the Tampa Bay area and I see Verizon commercial all the time where
other ISP customers are complaining that theirs ISP take so long to upload
pictures, backups, etc.
Plus there are commercial with people on an escalator where the up escalator is
much slower than the down escalator and people are complaining up should be as
fast as down.
Regards,
Steve
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/verizon-fios-finally-symmetrical-upload-speeds-boosted-to-match-download/
ADSL development proceeded the development of the consumer Internet. The
original patent was filed in 1988. DSL was designed originally to deliver video
in an ISDN/ATM world. For that reason, it was asymmetric.
ADSL did not proceed the development of the consumer Internet in the commercial
world. If it did, we would never have gone with dial-up modems. Patent dates
have very little to do with commercial availability at all. Please give me an
example of a purchasable service using ADSL prior to its use in Internet
delivery. The number one reason ADSL succeeded and SDSL did not.....you could
put an ADSL signal on the phone line you already had in your house, SDSL
required a new loop to be ordered. Faster to provision and it can be done
without a truck roll.
Steven Naslund
Chicago IL
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