[LINK] The PLAN, and broadband speeds?

[Adrian Chadd]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007, steve jenkin wrote:
> Craig Sanders wrote on 22/6/07 6:10 PM:
> > that's why we have volume charging in australia, and it's why telstra
> > charges for upload as well as download volume. 
> Craig, Agree - your arguments are lethally correct for Telstra. This is
> their death knell.
> 
> IP-TV will not and cannot take off in Australia until Volume Charging is
> abolished...
> [ISP's on their own networks provide 'free' internal traffic.  Excludes
> other players.]

It'll take off. ISPs will/(do?) deploy that, VoD and other multicast services
in a sane fashion bypassing their normal unicast IP setup by running
another unicast or multicast out to the DSLAMs and then pushing it over
a seperate VC.

Its definitely doable with current tech, and it can happen alongside their
traditional bandwidth charging models. Of course, you won't be able to run
arbitrary multicast over that, as cool as it might be - it'll be used
for the ISP to push sellable media content to you.




Adrian