[LINK] NBN to cost 24 times South Korea's faster network, says research body

[Paul Brooks]

On 10/02/2011 4:29 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Paul Brooks wrote:
>> Thanks for the lead-in Richard...
> <snip>
>>> I don't see this happening (say) in the NBN for IPTV content.
>> Nor do I, because:
>>     1) the cyclone picture was being sent upstream, IPTV will be transmitted
>> downstream - most plans will have much higher capacity downstream compared to up
>>     2) IPTV content will be captured with much higher quality cameras, and much higher
>> capacity MPEG-4/H.264 dedicated compression encoders, so better quality pictures
>>     3) IPTV over the NBN will be carried over QoS-enabled prioritising networks, not
>> the dismal excuses of best-efforts no QoS consumer broadband we have today
>>
> Do you see the QoS prioritised channels being available 
> across the Internet or just between specific locations ie as 
> a consumer will I be able to view any IPTV channel around 
> the world?

The QoS-enabled bit will only be across the NBNCo portion, from PoI to your house (and
back again for upstream traffic). You're ISP will have to make a concious effort to
use the capability, so some may ignore it.

On the ISP side of the PoI, that would be up to the ISP whether or not they obey QoS
markings - some of them do, for their own IPTV solution (FetchTV on iiNet for example)
- but generally they do not for general Internet traffic, which is how they would see
an IPTV channel stream from another country.


> It seems to me that the trade off we have with our dismal 
> excuses of best-efforts no QoS consumer broadband is price 
> and ubiquity. I do wonder whether the lack of support for 
> transient customers will become a problem.
Sorry, I can't see how these two are linked. You still have ubiquity, its just that a
section of the path understands QoS - and there shouldn't be a cost issue.
Can you explain what you mean by a transient customer, and what the problem you are
concerned about with them?

Paul.