Re: Obama XXII: Occupy the White House
I guess porn would be in the video category (movies, flash, music etc..). And that has been the biggest bandwidth hog + cellphone and data.
Remember the bandwidth glut of 2001 and the crash of the optic fiber companies as they couldn't connect "the last mile" to the customers. Blocked by both local phone and cable companies from using their lines.
Now we got metering by usage and our average speed hasn't gone up and our cost has gone up (flat) since 2001. And we got METERING by both telco and cable companies to relieve the congestion supposedly.
http://news.cnet.com/Is-fiber-optic-construction-creating-overkill/2100-1033_3-268859.html
Does porn count?
(I guess only if you learn something.)
I guess porn would be in the video category (movies, flash, music etc..). And that has been the biggest bandwidth hog + cellphone and data.
Remember the bandwidth glut of 2001 and the crash of the optic fiber companies as they couldn't connect "the last mile" to the customers. Blocked by both local phone and cable companies from using their lines.
Now we got metering by usage and our average speed hasn't gone up and our cost has gone up (flat) since 2001. And we got METERING by both telco and cable companies to relieve the congestion supposedly.
http://news.cnet.com/Is-fiber-optic-construction-creating-overkill/2100-1033_3-268859.html
June 21, 2001 4:20 PM PDT
Is fiber-optic construction creating overkill?
So the question remains: Will the carriers use all the fiber currently installed underground? Davenport's Johnstone believes that will not happen for at least another 10 years--if ever
"You could do all the world's long-distance with two or three strands of fiber, and there's thousands of strands in the ground" now, Matulich said.
Many industry observers believe that less than 5 percent of the fiber put in the ground is in use. Future applications and new Internet users may one day fill these networks, but for now most experts say they will handle only a fraction of their capacity.
Making matters worse for carriers, the lack of network traffic has forced them to cut prices for use of their networks.
According to RateXchange, an electronic broker that helps carriers trade bandwidth capacity, a connection running at 155 megabits per second from Los Angeles to New York cost about $45,000 a month last October. That price fell to $35,000 in March and is expected to slip to $2,450 in January 2002.