> Re: [LINK] The PLAN, and broadband speeds?

[Stewart Fist]

Glen wrote


> you need about 1.2Gbps -- call it 1Gbps for convenience and
> assuming you can squeeze more performance out of HD video codecs
> as CPUs improve. So we're talking fiber to the home as the end game.

I agree with his conclusions, but not with the figures.

25 Megs is enough for most HDTV, (times two or three for the kids TV) and a
couple of Megs is enough for videoconferencing (times two for symmetrical)

Add in some future possibilities of:
* smell-a-vision  
* room shaking for adventure films and
* Barbarella-style orgasm box that allows your daughter to have unprotected
sex with some remote boyfriend,

and you've gone pretty close to the limit of the senses -- and therefore of
the requirments, in a 2.4 person household.


So I would think 100Mb/s is the sort of figure we should be aiming for in
FTTH

If you have greater-than-normal requirements, then you pay for two fibres

It makes no sense to design for the extreme user, when duplication is
available by dark fibres

Anyhow, we know that terminal equipment will get cheaper and better at a
rate faster than human requirements will change, so anything around
30-50Mb/s is an acceptable standard for now.



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