[LINK] Propose Video Bandwidth Limit During COVID19 Emergency

[Ivan Trundle]

> On 20 Mar 2020, at 9:20 am, Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au> wrote:
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> Service-providers can include, and promote, features whereby individuals can participate audio-only, thereby suppressing more unwanted traffic.

Video conferencing? You must be joking! All very entertaining to hear of debate over this, but this morning, I tried to make a regular voice conference call using a well-known national telecommunications provider with a nation-wide group of people all sitting in high-bandwidth popes, and discovered that the telcom company didn’t have sufficient bandwidth to deliver the service, and as a result sent a message saying that I should ’try again later’.

I work for an organisation that is desperately sourcing enough bandwidth to conduct work-from-home activities for many thousand staff, and has been for some time (not just in the last week or two). Configuration changes of networks, routers, switches, and other devices all have to be made which is stretching the capacity of most services, but especially those that have had to lay off staff already.

Pipe dream of having video at the moment!

iT