New minimum speed for US broadband connections

Fri May 28 23:15:11 UTC 2021

We’re about to become a multi-planet species. Upload will matter.

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Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE
6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 
CEO 
lb at 6by7.net
"The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.”

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> On May 28, 2021, at 4:08 PM, Brandon Price <PriceB at sherwoodoregon.gov> wrote:
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> It’s not about being lucky,  it’s that the grant dollars are being siphoned up by folks providing a mediocre product. There are fiber providers that can make a rural build pencil if they were eligible. The point of the definition is to encourage building a better product.
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> To your previous question about usage,  I took a quick look at one of my smaller GPON shelves and most times the download to upload ratio is roughly 4 to 1 across all the subs on that shelf. That’s a healthy upload by itself, but there was a 5 minute datapoint just now where the upload spiked to about triple the download rate. Someone did a huge upload, and got it over and done with quick. Yes people can live with less bandwidth, but why would you want to?
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> The feedback I hear from more and more customers with regards to upload is teleconferencing for work/school and IOT type devices uploading to the cloud….
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> From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon at gmail.com> 
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2021 3:42 PM
> To: Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE <lb at 6by7.net>
> Cc: Brandon Price <PriceB at SherwoodOregon.gov>; NANOG Operators' Group <nanog at nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections
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> Fiber is cool and all, but there is a HUUUUUGE amount of areas that aren't lucky enough to have fiber and wireless is the only way to go.
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> So, we up the minimum to 100 Mbps just because some areas are lucky enough to have fiber?
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> -Mike
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> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 3:38 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE <lb at 6by7.net> wrote:
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> > On May 28, 2021, at 3:29 PM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Curious, when you look at the usage on those 100/100 plans. What are they actually using? If they aren't actually using it, then why up the minimum?
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> Simple, our time isn’t free.  The less time humanity itself spends waiting on downloads, the more we spend loving, celebrating, embracing, playing and exploring.
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> Really, fiber is fiber, it’s just about optics from there, and those are cheap.
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> (And ignoring WISPSs and rural economies of scale but I digress.)
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> 8 billion fiber drops for 8 billion people.
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> That’s what it will take to wire the future.  32k res AR environments; 1TB video games, distance learning via implant, full self driving cars - Qualcomm itself says bandwidth is to grow 1000-fold in the next 9 years alone.
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> Are you ready?
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> Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE
> 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 
> CEO 
> lb at 6by7.net
> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.”
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> FCC License KJ6FJJ
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> Mike Lyon
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