cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

Sun Apr 17 18:24:32 UTC 2005

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikael Abrahamsson [mailto:swmike at swm.pp.se]
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 12:55 PM
> To: Randy Bush
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit 
> (france telecom) depeers cogent)
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> > fwiw, 100mb to the home costs about that in japan
> 
> Well, I dont really see the average home actually using
> 100meg all the 
> time in the near future, thus my 5 meg utilization average estimate. 
> Access could be whatever speed of course, access speed not 
> used doesn't 
> cost very much.

I think you're very wrong here.  For packet delivery of video based
services, I could see a home using 100mb/s between voice, video, and data
within the next 12-24 months.  All of the product roadmaps I've been looking
at contain "How to get 100mb/s to the home", "How do we push BRAS/Multicast
deployment closer to the edge", "What is the roadmap for converged services
past triple play?"

Regards,

Chris Malayter
TDS Telecom - Network Services
Data Network Engineering
chris.malayter at tdstelecom.com
Phone: (608) 664-4878
FAX:	(608) 664-4644