Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Don Fanning
Wow... Talk about a topic that will start a hornet's nest between engineers and management every time if "money were no object". It's sort of like airlines asking "what should be the seat width of our cabins?" You're gonna get some heated responses. Just jumping into this thread after scanning o

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 5/30/21 8:32 PM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: On Sun, 30 May 2021 15:56:52 -0500, Blake Dunlap said: The co op electric serving my families house in bfe tn that doesn't have either sewer or cable managed to run hard fiber for dirt cheap to all their subscribers. Its clear from that the problem isn

Re: MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs

2021-05-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/29/21 04:17, Patrick Cole wrote: We ran a medium sized mpls network using ciena 3900 and 5000 series boxes on our microwave network. Nothing but problems, the mpls code was just not mature enough and our radio network had the boxes falling apart at the seams as storms rolled throug

Re: MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs

2021-05-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/29/21 00:46, Colton Conor wrote: Yes, I was surprised as you that they have these routing features. I was also surprised they had multiple boxes that compete with aggregation devices like the ACX5048. The question is how good is Ciena's MPLS, switching, and routing stack compared to th

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On 5/29/21 00:38, Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE wrote: 8 billion fiber drops for 8 billion people. Technically speaking, 8 billion people is not 8 billion households :-). But the bigger problem is getting fibre to every family in the world is not yet currently feasible. There is

Re: MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs

2021-05-30 Thread Patrick Cole
Colton, This was 6+ years ago, SAOS 6.14, so I don't know it might be better now. We changed to Cisco ASR920 and it was a night and day difference - we now have 90ish ASR920s in production but are migrating toward the NCS540X. Patrick Sat, May 29, 2021 at 10:13:13AM -0500, Colton Conor wrote:

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 30 May 2021 15:56:52 -0500, Blake Dunlap said: > The co op electric serving my families house in bfe tn that doesn't have > either sewer or cable managed to run hard fiber for dirt cheap to all their > subscribers. Its clear from that the problem isnt can't, it's won't. Are you able to sha

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Blake Dunlap
The co op electric serving my families house in bfe tn that doesn't have either sewer or cable managed to run hard fiber for dirt cheap to all their subscribers. Its clear from that the problem isnt can't, it's won't. Setting the bar so low that podunk wifi 300k links that barely have more backhaul

Re: Call for academic researchers (Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections)

2021-05-30 Thread Eric Kuhnke
An interesting question would be to quantify and do statistical analysis on the following: Take a set of 1000 or more residential last mile broadband customers on an effectively more-than-they-can-use connection (symmetric 1Gbps active ethernet or similar). On a 60s interval, retrieve SNMP traffi

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Baldur Norddahl
søn. 30. maj 2021 15.29 skrev Mike Hammett : > What can you do with 100 megs that you can't do with 25 megs and why > should anyone care? > That is really the wrong question. People want 100 Mbps over 25 Mbps and therefore it becomes a need for rural communities. Doesn't matter that someone belie

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread John Curran
Sean - As others have alluded to, it likely would heavily depend how such a definition of “broadband Internet" gets used… As a recommendation, it’s a wonderful thing to have a reference target for service providers to aim for in their offerings. As a mandated requirement (e.g. when used for

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Bryan Fields
On 5/29/21 11:39 AM, Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE wrote: > Good point, but developments in QAM technology benefit both fiber and radio > nowadays. You can't escape the limits of physics here. Doubling your QAM means you loose sensitivity, and typically limits your transmitter power to l

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Mike Hammett
What can you do with 100 megs that you can't do with 25 megs and why should anyone care? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Baldur Norddahl" To: "NANOG" Sent: Sunday, Ma

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Mike Hammett
That doesn't really serve any value and 99.99% of people would not pay any more than $50 for the ability, so your ability to execute such a system is limited. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - O

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe
I’m right there with you. I can download an entire Mac OS update in 6 minutes. It’s astonishing. I’d pay a grand a month for this. I’d pay five. -LB Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global te

New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread David
Note, the official broadband definition only means service providers can't advertise it as "broadband" or **qualify for subsidies**; not that they must deliver better service. This seems to be the point most respondents are missing No entity is blocking slower than X deployments; the 64

Where do you hire telecom relationship mgrs?

2021-05-30 Thread Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE
At the risk of running afoul (moderators pls delete if inappropriate) - I’d like to ask the group as a whole where you go these days to find experienced enterprise telecom relationship managers/salespeople? I’m talking about the 1-2% of the pool that bring their own book, have existing relatio

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Keith Christian
I don’t think any speed should be mandated. The speed will increase as fast as the market allows. Don’t want to much government involvement into any free market business. Government brings confusion and waste.

does anybody know how to get charter coax business IP removed from black list?

2021-05-30 Thread tim
Hello Guys I been on the phone with spectrum business coax tech support and they are telling me that I have 2 IP's to my modem I pay for static IPs they are calming these are not real world IP's and I have other IP address that is tied to my cable modem that is public and they keep telling me I

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Mike Hammett
Well right, but what many seem to be disconnected with is where is the line between spending a few billion dollars per year and spending tens or hundreds of billions of dollars per year. We're conflating "minimum acceptable service" with "what I feel I need to be comfortable." If we decide

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Mike Hammett
Also, LEOs still won't penetrate foliage. LEOs won't work in MDUs. LEOs won't work in varying terrain. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com - Original Message - From: "Mike Hammett" To: "Lady Benjami

Re: Call for academic researchers (Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections)

2021-05-30 Thread Mike Hammett
I think that just underscores that the bps of a connection isn't the end-all, be-all of connection quality. Yes, I'm sure most of us here knew that. However, many of us here still get distracted by the bps. If we can't get it right, how can we expect policy wonks to get it right? - M

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Baldur Norddahl
In 2021 I would claim that 100 Mbps is where "good" internet starts. Yes, 25 Mbps will work but it is not good internet. Not to mention 2 Mbps ADSL which is almost the same as no internet. Now there are needs for an individual and there are needs for a community. The rural communities have a genui

Re: Call for academic researchers (Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections)

2021-05-30 Thread Masataka Ohta
Sean Donelan wrote: Have any academic researchers done work on what are the real-world minimum connection requirements for home-schooling, video teams applications, job interview video calls, and network background application noise? The requirement is end-to-end QoS guaranteed connections w