[LINK] Business fetishism (was Re: LINK] Four Corners NBN)

[Paul Brooks]

On 14/04/2011 2:37 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
> It´s the upstream, s******** (seriously)
+1 to this
> Traditional residential broadband services, as envisioned by the
> for-profit telcos using HFC networks or ADSL is *assymetric*, with
> upload speeds barely enough to send email and do video chat with
> crappy resolution (often 1/4´th to a 10th of the download speed). That
> is, that approach assumes consumers to be "downloaders" of
> information, passive consumers of Youtube or web sites.
To be fair, both those technologies were developed for delivering video and PayTV
services. The asymmetric nature of the technology was a perfect match to the intended
purpose. It was only later, when 'the telcos' and us the customer started desiring and
demanding on-line packet network access, that we all started trying to shoehorn the
service into the delivery technology that happened to be available, which
sorta-kinda-worked even though the technology wasn't intended for the purpose.



> The true revolution will be when, thanks to FTTH, those artificial
> limits are removed, and residential customers enjoy
> high-speed-upstream connections (as provided by symmetric FTTH links).
> Thus the barrier between "business grade" internet links and
> residential broadband is eliminated, and ANYONE can become a true
> "services provider" on the global Network.

amen and pass the peanut paste*  - I completely agree, it is the upstream capability
that will be more of a game-changer - and I have been urging NBNCo to provide a
symmetric residential-aimed option, possibly 6/6 or 10/10 - with that aim in mind.
After all, the entire backhaul network from the POI outwards is symmetric, there
doesn't seem to be any technological reason to perpetuate highly asymmetric
access-network services and leave one direction of the longhaul network empty.





(*I'm from Adelaide - I still can't accept the rest of the country has adopted
Americanisation and now calls it 'butter')

Paul.