Is that what they claimed, demand, instead of bandwidth?
Whoops, it looks like you caught me. That quote is from Patrick Harshman of Harmonic.
"A network trend we're seeing is the data traffic is turning out to be much more symmetric than operators initially anticipated," says Patrick Harshman, Harmonic's vice president of marketing.
cedmagazine.com
Regarding your critique (observation) of the way the ILECSs and MSOs are provisioning for the inevitable bandwidth demands, I would refer you to a critique of the capitalist system, authored by two socialists (Baran & Sweezy) titled "Monopoly Capital".
Here is a quote:
"The profit maximizing big corporation has, as we have already stressed, a strong incentive to discover new, lower cost techniques; and since its ability to make use of the resources of science and technology is much greater than that of the smaller competitive firm, we should actually expect monopoly capitalism to speed up the rate of discovery."
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"What the theory does imply is this: under monopoly capitalism, the rate at which new techniques will supersede old techniques will be slower than traditional economic theory would suppose. Paradoxical though it may seem, we should therefore expect monopoly capitalism to be simultaneously characterized by a rapid rate of technical progress and by the retention in use of a large amount of technological obsolete equipment"
BTW, this is the second time in several months that you've honored me by way of correction. I'm still indebted to you for catching me, early on, on the matter of eye safety icw infrared free space devices.
Your welcome. I just happen to have some minimal experience using 1.55um lasers. I'm glad I could contribute.
Subsequent to those posting, in which I was preoccupied with the effects of rain, I have learned that rain isn't too much of problem for these 1.55um free space guys, as has been reported elsewhere. |
