[Bloat] 22 seconds til bloat on gfiber?

Aaron Wood woody77 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 15:45:06 EDT 2016


On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 12:30 PM, David Lang <david at lang.hm> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Dave Taht wrote:
>
>>
>> I am increasingly convinced that without a killer application that
>> requires it,
>> we've hit "peak bandwidth".
>>
>
> You sound like my College Professor from the early 90's who said that the
> networks were now going to be so fast that there was no way that users
> would need all the available bandwidth, and that it was up to the students
> in the class to invent new uses :-)
>
> Then the web happened.
>
> any declaration of 'peak bandwidth' is only a temporary state.


I thought 1080p was going to be close to the high-water-mark for video
bandwidth needed, and then 4K came out, and now I'm seeing 8K cameras from
RED.  Although we're deep into diminishing returns on video, I'm sure there
will be other applications...  I know that even with ~150Mbps service, I'm
routinely at that limit, and wanting more.  But I want upload more than I
want download.  12Mbps is peanuts.  I think as we get more cloud
photo/video stuff happening, there will be a push for faster upload speeds
(mostly for backups and pushing to the cloud).  100 DSLR images (24MP,
losslessly compressed) take about 30 minutes to upload at 12Mbps...

12Mbps is only 5.4GB/hour...  I'd love to have 150Mbps synchronous.

-Aaron
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