modeling residential subscriber bandwidth demand

Wed Apr 3 06:53:06 UTC 2019

A 100/100 enterprise connection can easily support hundreds of desktop users if not more.  It’s a lot of bandwidth even today. 

-Ben

> On Apr 2, 2019, at 10:35 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2019, Paul Nash wrote:
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>> FWIW, I have a 250 subscribers sitting on a 100M fiber into Torix.  I have had no complains about speed in 4 1/2 years.  I have been planning to bump them to 1G for the last 4 years, but there is currently no economic justification.
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> I know FTTH footprints where peak evening average per customer is 3-5 megabit/s. I know others who claim their customers only average equivalent 5-10% of that.
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> It all depends on what services you offer. Considering my household has 250/100 for 40 USD a month I'd say your above solution wouldn't even be enough to deliver an acceptable service to even 10 households.
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> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se