On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:32:38 +0000, William Waites said:
for them to upload their photographs. Multi-party videoconferencing doesn't work well unless at least one participant (or a server) is on good, symmetric bandwidth.
There's no need for good symmetric bandwidth. There's just need for good bandwidth. If my video requires 5MBit/sec in each direction, I only need 5MBit/sec in each direction. So provisioning a 50/10 that has at least 5 idle on both sides is suitable, but a 50/50 that only has 3 available on one side because somebody else is using 47 for other stuff isn't suitable. Now, if all you use the circuit for is videoconferencing, then yes, you'll end up with effectively needing near-symmetric bandwidth. However, I'm not seeing any reason to expect that we're going to move away from downstream-heavy applications anytime soon.