Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> writes:
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?
I don't think this "need" is based on using up all the available bandwitdh, but about speed expectations. Customers want to download the same amount of data as before, only faster. Increasing the subscriber port bandwidth allows the ISP to oversubscribe their access network even more, so the cost doesn't necessarily increase much. You get faster downloads for "free". Customers will want that. Don't know how many of you on the wrong side of the pond followed RIPE84? There was an interesting talk there from Init7 in Switzerland on their experiences delivering 25 gig FTTH: https://ripe84.ripe.net/archives/video/797/ I noticed in particular the "Monthly volume won't change" on one of the slides.. Dealing with extreme syncronized peaks, like a popular game launch for example, will be harder with higher bandwidths. But we do have CDNs for efficient distribution of the same content to many ports. You'll just have to move those further out in the access network. Bjørn