Symmetry, DSL, and all that
Fletcher Kittredge
fkittred at gwi.net
Mon Mar 2 18:57:08 UTC 2015
Not a very informative discussion.
Points of fact...
>From Verizon's January filings regarding 2014Q4:
1. Verizon has about eight million FIOS customers.
2. "Fifty-nine percent of FiOS consumer Internet customers subscribed
to data speeds of at least 50Mbps, up from 46 percent one year earlier."
>From a Verizon press release last summer, all FIOS speeds are now
symmetric.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/verizon-fios-finally-symmetrical-upload-speeds-boosted-to-match-download/
ADSL development proceeded the development of the consumer Internet. The
original patent was filed in 1988. DSL was designed originally to deliver
video in an ISDN/ATM world. For that reason, it was asymmetric.
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