Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers
> On May 23, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > > > On 5/23/22 11:49 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: >> The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US household will >> need more than a gig within 5 years. Why not just jump it to a gig or more? > > > Really? What is the average household doing to use up a gig worth of > bandwidth? > > Mike Thats almost the same question we were asked at BT a dozen years ago when moving from DSL -> FTTC when someone said, “but surely DSL is sufficient because its so much faster than dial.” —Tom > >> >> >> On 5/23/2022 1:40 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: >>> >>> https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0 >>> >>> >>> The Federal Communications Commission voted [May 19, 2022] to seek comment >>> on a proposal to provide additional universal service support to certain >>> rural carriers in exchange for increasing deployment to more locations at >>> higher speeds. The proposal would make changes to the Alternative Connect >>> America Cost Model (A-CAM) program, with the goal of achieving widespread >>> deployment of faster 100/20 Mbps broadband service throughout the rural >>> areas served by rural carriers currently receiving A-CAM support. >>> >>
Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers
That is all obvious to me at least. I was just pointing out the folly in saying “what would one do with that much X” resource. We always have found a way going back to the beginning. My story about back at BT was prior to video streaming. At that point in time it didn’t exist and was made a reality in part, because of the simple increase in bandwidth available to subscribers (and everywhere else). —Tom > On May 23, 2022, at 3:53 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > > > > On 5/23/22 12:29 PM, David Bass wrote: >> What is changing in the next 5 years that could possibly require a household >> to need a gig? That is just ridiculous. > I think the key thing is just to get fiber laid. Once that happens ISP's can > turn up the dial relatively easy as needed. Also: even if they gave you a > nominal rate of 1G it doesn't mean that they won't oversubcribe the headend > and beyond. > > Mike > > > >> >> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM Michael Thomas > <mailto:m...@mtcc.com>> wrote: >> >> On 5/23/22 12:04 PM, Thomas Nadeau wrote: >> > >> > >> >> On May 23, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Michael Thomas > >> <mailto:m...@mtcc.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On 5/23/22 11:49 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: >> >>> The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US household >> >>> will need more than a gig within 5 years. Why not just jump it to a gig >> >>> or more? >> >> >> >> Really? What is the average household doing to use up a gig worth of >> >> bandwidth? >> >> >> >> Mike >> > Thats almost the same question we were asked at BT a dozen years ago when >> > moving from DSL -> FTTC when someone said, “but surely DSL is sufficient >> > because its so much faster than dial.” >> >> The two of us survive just fine with 25Mbs even when we have a house >> full of friends. I mean it would be nice to have 100Mbs so that it's >> never a problem but the reality is that it just hasn't been a problem in >> practice. I mean how many 4k streams are running at the same time in the >> average household? What else besides game downloads are sucking up that >> much bandwidth all of the time? >> >> Mike >> >> >> > >> > —Tom >> > >> > >> >>> >> >>> On 5/23/2022 1:40 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: >> >>>> https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0 >> >>>> >> >>>> <https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0> >> >>>> >> >>>> The Federal Communications Commission voted [May 19, 2022] to seek >> >>>> comment on a proposal to provide additional universal service support >> >>>> to certain rural carriers in exchange for increasing deployment to more >> >>>> locations at higher speeds. The proposal would make changes to the >> >>>> Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM) program, with the goal >> >>>> of achieving widespread deployment of faster 100/20 Mbps broadband >> >>>> service throughout the rural areas served by rural carriers currently >> >>>> receiving A-CAM support. >> >>>>
Re: SNMP monitoring of routing tables
I concur. Their tool is quite nice. --Tom On Mar 13, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >> Does anyone know of a similar tool (opensource/low cost) for the IGPs? > > packet design > > randy > >
Re: Comcast vs. Verizon for repair methodologies
My VZ FioS install was similarly fantastic. Those guys have figured out that spending a little more time, effort and cable (cat6 in the case of VZ) goes a long, long way in keeping customers happy. --Tom On Aug 20, 2012:7:43 PM, at 7:43 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > on bainbridge, i replaced centurystink dsl (756k/256k for $65/mo) with > comcast (20m/4m for $50/mo). the installer was a knarly old dog, and > damned competent. he cleaned up old cable on the pole and where it went > underground to the house. he cleaned up the box and replaced in-house > junctions. then he accidentally left 8m of coax to get from the in-wall > cable outlet to my 'puter area, and rode off in his white van into the > sunset. > > now if i could get that kind of professionalism from twt in hawaii ... > > randy > >
Re: Open source hardware
On Jan 3, 2014:12:01 AM, at 12:01 AM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Andrew Duey < > andrew.d...@widerangebroadband.net> wrote: > >> I'm surprised nobody's mentioned vyatta.org or the new fork of VyOs. We >> are currently using the vyatta community edition and so far it's been good >> to to us. It depends on your hardware and how small of an ISP you are but >> it might be a great open source fit for you. > > > The orig. author has potentially set course for a world of hurt -- if the > plan is to scrap robust packaged highly-validated gear having separate > hardware forwarding planes and ASIC-driven filtering, to stick cheap x86 > servers in the SP core and internet borders. > > Sure... anyone can install Vyatta on a x86 server, but assembly of all > the pieces and full validation for a resilient platform comparable to > carrier grade gear, for a mission critical network, should be a bit more > involved than that. > > Next up how to build your own 10-Gigabit SFPs to avoid paying for > expensive brand-name SFPs, by putting together some chips, wires, fiber, > and tying it all together with a piece of duck tape > > just saying... :) That does seem a bit harsh given there are numerous examples of companies out there successfully putting together and deploying their own switches/routers in production. It may require significant resources and not be for the faint of heart, but from what I've seen, its far from a bailing wire and bubblegum operation. --Tom > > >> --Andrew Duey >> > -- > -JH > signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
