<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:24 PM, nivardus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nivardus@gmail.com">nivardus@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Higher speeds benefit a lot more than gaming. Streaming video, high<br>
resolution images, 3D content and rich media as a whole is infinitely<br>
hungry for increased bandwidth. The reason why there is no web-wide<br>
demand for 1000 Mbps connections is because consumers don't have them.<br>
Development and distribution of richer web applications are held back<br>
by broadband speed and penetration and vice versa.<br>
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Google, a web-service-based company, has everything to gain from a<br>
more capable medium; whereas ISPs' business models are the result of<br>
outdated telecom practices: aggressive construction of newer tech will<br>
only cut profits. Increased web-service company involvement in ISPs<br>
may be the future, as seen with past efforts such as AT&T Yahoo!<br>
internet. FiOS is something odd: a large telecom company taking a<br>
large risk, but outliers happen. I'm disappointed by such a service<br>
not being available in my area but I'm not blaming Verizon.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
"What would things be like if we were using ipv6 and ip addresses<br>
weren't at a premium, and if upload speeds were equal to download<br>
speeds?"<br>
</div>-<a href="mailto:ben.demott@gmail.com">ben.demott@gmail.com</a><br>
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What if everyone using the internet had the ability to share with<br>
others as much as others share with him or her? I think it is<br>
fundamentally important to the success of the net, it's what powers<br>
free software, Wikipedia, and the reason it is the large step in<br>
society's evolution we view it as today. ISPs offer a slanted<br>
subscriber-provider dichotomy, thinking of the internet as cable<br>
television: forbidding any type of hosting on residential connections.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________ <br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Overall, this is in keeping with my view</div><div>of broadband. The data suggests it's </div>
<div>"build it and they will come." I'll post some</div><div>items from business magazines showing</div><div>that, give or take the current economy, </div><div>growth in broaddband - users and capital</div>
<div>investment - is still robust and dynamic.</div><div>Broadband (by some definition) went from</div><div>a couple of percent access in year 2000</div><div>to almost 50% by the beginning of year</div><div>2007.</div><div>
<br></div><div>New technologies, like Uni-DSL, provides</div><div>speeds of up to 200 Mbps. VDSL can </div><div>provide up to 52 Mbps at up to 2,600 feet,</div><div>more than enough to go from AT&T's or</div><div>
Comcast's fiber termination point to many</div><div>household.</div><div><br></div><div>And of course there are orders of magnitude</div><div>of improving in many elements of computers</div><div>yet. Hard drive capaicity, memory, USB, </div>
<div>CPU performance, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Suggesting that the bandwidth world has</div><div>peaked and then some smacks no little of</div><div>closing the patent office because everything</div><div>was already invented - about 1890, in the US.</div>
<div>It matters not what people do with the stuff.</div><div>Even wasting much of it. The question is only</div><div>one of cost. And those at the top tiers of </div><div>use and innovation will very likely keep coming</div>
<div>up with new things. i.e., there's little evidence</div><div>today that development of any of the key</div><div>computer components has hit a wall.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, rah-rah. But I would bet that </div>
<div>capacities and speeds with continue to</div><div>increase, and costs will continue to come</div><div>down. "Moore's law" is nothing more than</div><div>an extrapolation of the past, but it has</div><div>
worked for decades. If it starts to bite in,</div><div>then it might be ominous for computer</div><div>component development down the road.</div><div>But the fact that few can see where this </div><div>is all going now is nothing more than</div>
<div>Groucho Marx's comment: "predicting is</div><div>hard. Especially the future." If any of us</div><div>could really see where things are going</div><div>it would be a fabulous opportunity to get</div><div>
very rich.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div></div>