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| Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 03:53:54 +0000 (UTC)
From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Still no Verizon FiOS for Boston
Message-ID: <mqmd4i$7id$1@reader1.panix.com>
David Clayton <dc33box-usenet2@nospam.yahoo.com.au> wrote:
:On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:15:03 -0400, Bill Horne wrote:
:> Verizon tests ultra-fast Internet in Framingham, still no FiOS for Boston
:>
:> It's a speed junkie's dream: a 10-gigabit-per-second Internet connection.
:>
:> With a firehose of data like that, you could stream content to a 4K
:> television. You could download 100 books in two seconds. If you're a
:> business, you could get an edge over the competition by moving data
:> faster. And some lucky duck in Framingham got to experience it.
:.........
:Given that any download rate is limited by the slowest link in the overall
:connection chain, has anyone in the "Real World" actually achieved these
:speeds from remote servers that may not even be on links that fast as well
:as serving thousands of other users on the same link?
:I'd like to see what the experience of people who have these mega-fast
:links is otherwise these numbers really don't mean a lot.
At a previous job, I had a gigabit connection to the internet at my
desk. (So did everyone else. There were several 10 gig connections
shared among a couple hundred people.) I was routinely able to use
80% or more of capacity doing things like downloading software
installation dvd images. That was seven or eight years ago. I have
no doubt that many other bandwidth hogging uses would occur to me
these days.
Also, remember, that most of these links will be shared by more than
one user.
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| Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 12:35:34 -0500
From: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@dork.geeks.org>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Still no Verizon FiOS for Boston
Message-ID: <efydnQF_Yfj75VLInZ2dnUU7-d2dnZ2d@giganews.com>
David Clayton <dc33box-usenet2@NOSPAM.yahoo.com.au> writes:
>On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:15:03 -0400, Bill Horne wrote:
>> Verizon tests ultra-fast Internet in Framingham, still no FiOS for Boston
>>
>> It's a speed junkie's dream: a 10-gigabit-per-second Internet connection.
>>
>> With a firehose of data like that, you could stream content to a 4K
>> television. You could download 100 books in two seconds. If you're a
>> business, you could get an edge over the competition by moving data
>> faster. And some lucky duck in Framingham got to experience it.
>.........
>Given that any download rate is limited by the slowest link in the overall
>connection chain, has anyone in the "Real World" actually achieved these
>speeds from remote servers that may not even be on links that fast as well
>as serving thousands of other users on the same link?
>I'd like to see what the experience of people who have these mega-fast
>links is otherwise these numbers really don't mean a lot.
Of course nothing singularly out on the Internet can fill a 10G pipe.
(NB: I am in a good position for you, since I run a small regional
service provider network, we have dual 10G Internet feeds currently.
I'm also on the tech community of our regional Internet Exchange,
where I can see the multitudes of users push data way beyond that).
Nothing singularly out there can even fill a 1Gbps pipe.
You definitely start running into server limits at that speed. Ie.
a fast singular hard drive now-a-days can feed data back into a server
at around 130MB/s, - just over 1Gbps. (athough enterprise Hybrid
RAID and especially SSD drives can go much faster than that).
I'd say that my typical download from a real fast server could maybe
get upwards of 450-500Mbps peak. But those are pretty rare and
infrequent. More typical "fast" servers could be in the 120Mbps
range. Slower servers would push you down into the range of the
average mid-to-higher-end cable users.
Of course, I've been careful to say "singularly" frequently.
Where we need the bandwidth, is where many many users download a lot
of data. Say from Netflix or Youtube. When you have unknown thousands
or 100's of thousands of users, all trying to get Netflix at once,
that becomes quite the traffic fire hose of data.
--
Doug McIntyre
doug@themcintyres.us
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| Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 07:35:33 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Corporate Spyware being used to track employees
Message-ID: <AA1DFE38-E094-464D-9DB0-23AFFDE9EDBC@roscom.com>
Data-Crunching Is Coming to Help Your Boss Manage Your Time
By David Streitfeldaug
Employers of all types are using a wide range of technological tools
to monitor workers' efforts and motivate them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/technology/data-crunching-is-coming-to-help-your-boss-manage-your-time.html
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| Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:38:51 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale
Message-ID: <789BC763-0FF6-4F0D-B5D4-4C99AB6E360A@roscom.com>
Newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the agency gained access to
billions of emails through a "highly collaborative" relationship with
AT&T.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html
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| Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:43:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: FCC, Canada agree on spectrum plan ahead of auction
Message-ID: <0b6e7814-bcf0-42fa-9a3a-87d06b7a56de@googlegroups.com>
By Andrew Berg, CED, 8/17/2015
The FCC is continuing its efforts to harmonize TV and wireless spectrum bands
with Canada as part of preparations for the upcoming incentive auctions.
In a blog post on the Commission's website, Gary Epstein, Incentive Auction
Task Force Chair, and Mindel DelaTorre, International Bureau Chief, wrote that
the FCC and Industry Canada have finalized a Statement of Intent (SOI) that
sets forth a framework and timeline for the repurposing TV spectrum for mobile
broadband on both sides of the border.
http://www.cedmagazine.com/news/2015/08/fcc-canada-agree-on-spectrum-plan-ahead-of-auction?et_cid=4747839&et_rid=652835436&location=top
-or-
http://tinyurl.com/ng2ummu
Neal McLain
***** Moderator's Note *****
Were I in change of the RF spectrum in Canada, I would be demanding a
minimum one-billion-dollar fee per auction, just to save the bidders
from having to do it twice.
Bill Horne
Moderator
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