RE: grrrrr.....

["Gerard McGovern" <stuff@xxxxxxx>]

I think you have missed the point, so I will attempt to explain.

Ethernet to deliver broadband services is not a new idea and I never
suggested that it couldn't be done. I pointed out two things. One,
Ethernet does not mean 10 Mb/sec and that the service would be
unreliable.

Take UUNet, who operate one of the biggest backbones in the UK if not
the world. Between Europe and the USA, UUNet have two 2.5 Gbps lines.
Imagine if every broadband user in UK, of which there are 200,000, had
10 Mb/sec of bandwidth. Even operating at contention ratios of 100:1
(which is way too high), you would need just under 20 Gbps of bandwidth.
Give it 5 years, and 10 Mb/sec for every broadband user would be
possible. Until then, not a chance in hell.

But of course, you knew that, right?

Oh, and thanks for putting the link with \\ instead of //. You managed
to copy The Register article with // but the link for me had \\. Ho ho,
that really made me laugh.

G

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 May 2002 5:45 pm
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] grrrrr.....
>
>
> *cough*
>
> well, Fastweb in Milan can do it, for one.
> So can Bredbandsbolgat in Sweden (touted by Cisco's
> Metro-Ethernet division) ilap in toronto don't have too many problems.=
>
> On a massive scale, PowerComm in South Korea, are building an
> ethernet network to provide service from 10Mbps to Gigabit
> Ethernet to over 11 Million people in Seoul.
>
> The fastweb website (which I have visited, did you?) is at
> http:\\fastweb.it\ and whilst I don't pretend to speak
> italian to any great extent, "Internet a 10Mbit/s" is fairly=
> international I think.
>
> A ten second search on google will give you a thousand hits
> back on Ethernet being used to deliver high speed internet
> services worldwide.
>
> Ian.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerard McGovern [mailto:stuff@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 May 2002 17:18
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] grrrrr.....
>
>
> > "FastWeb, in Milan, which delivers an array of broadband ser= vices -
> > TV,phone, fast Internet - for a cost-effective $53 a month
> - through
> > Ethernet."
> >
> > Yes, That's $53 USD, or...=A338 a month.
> >
> > for 10Mbps.
> >
> > sick? bet your ass...
>
> not really ... I can't think of any ISP in the world who
> could provide a realiable service by offering each user 10Mbps ...
>
> also, where does it say it is 10Mbps? Ethernet !=3D just 10Mbps
>
> g
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