[LINK] Link Digest, Vol 290, Issue 19

[David Boxall]

On 30/01/2017 12:03 PM, Simon Sharwood wrote:
> NBN takeup is slow. ...

> ... five years ago we were told that VoD would need FTTP at
> 100Mbps. And now Netflix et all are doing it at 3.5Mbps ...
> ...
3.5 Mb/s for standard definition perhaps, depending on codec and 
quality, but what of:
- higher-quality SD?
- High Definition?
- 4k?
- 8k?
- 16k?
- HDR on top of higher definition?
- whatever comes after that?

Carefully cherry-picked figures notwithstanding, the exponential rise in 
demand continues.
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The anticipated service life of optical fibre is a century or more. 
Building for yesterday would be incompetent or treacherous. But then, 
the government involved has proven both incompetent and treacherous.

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