From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Sat Jul 01 2000 - 12:28:09 PDT
Actually I think you meant 40MB (320Mb) and 33MB below. At any rate...
later this year you will be able to get a gigabit for perhaps around
$7k/month from TeraBeam Networks in certain areas of some major cities.
Assuming bandwidth keeps doubling every 12 months at a minimum, then
you should get a gigabit in some areas of the US for around $100/month
in 6 years or so? Might take 8-9 years to be widespread and really cheap.
TeraBeam info: http://www.tbtf.com/blog/2000-03-05.html#5
Jeff Bone wrote:
>
> It's staggering to think about, really... the difference between gigabit and top-end DSL is
> close-order 4-5x the difference between today's top-end DSL and the first commercial modems.
> When you think about the increase in depth, richness, and variety of experience between the
> first modems and DSL, and then multiply that *increase* by 4-5x, that's what gigabit to the
> house is going to get us over today's high-end pipes.
>
> Wow.
>
> Another way to think about it: Ultra SCSI has a max bandwidth of 40 Mb / sec; IDE / ATA has
> something like 33 Mb / sec. Gigabit network interfaces are right around the capacity of
> today's top-end consumer local storage.
>
> Wow, wow, wow.
>
> Thanks to everybody for the thoughts on how to use it... keep 'em flowing. ;-) Here's a
> follow-on question: when do y'all think consumer-priced gigabit to the home will be available
> in your respective areas?
>
> jb
>
> Brian Atkins wrote:
>
> > All of those take less than 10mbit or 1/100th of the gigabit/sec proposed...
> > Even if you do HDTV level videoconferencing with multiple participants you
> > aren't going to break 100mbit (not to mention that the cameras would cost
> > a crapload of $$$). So it doesn't appear that the average human is capable
> > of individually generating or consuming more than 100mbit/sec ? It would
> > have to be some kind of software under their control doing someting for
> > them to really suck up that much bandwidth. They could run a warez server,
> > or run a Beowulf/cluster that is in multiple physical locations.
> >
> > Jesse wrote:
> > >
> > > DVD quality video on demand.
> > > "real" teleconfrencing.
> > > remote apps that don't perform like a dog. (though my soon-to-be-ex employer intonet.com
> > > can do it with DSL-level bandwidth or a tad more.)
> > >
> > > jesse
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 03:17:46PM -0500, Jeff Bone wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Somebody asked me a really interesting question yesterday. What can you
> > > > do with a gigabit to the home? In particular, what are the killer apps
> > > > enabled by 3 orders of magnitude greater bandwidth than DSL?
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts appreciated,
> > > >
> > > > jb
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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