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Strategies & Market Trends : ahhaha's ahs
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To: deeno who wrote (4767)7/11/2002 2:46:18 PM
From: ahhahaRead Replies (3) of 24758
 
really? how do you know this(that backbones are loaded to the hilt)?

Growth rate of throughput minus telco capex to add capacity. Sampling across the 24 hour day of speed and ping latency.

What does "loaded" really mean?

It means that on cable BB response times and ftp transfers are slower.

at peak times do we stall?

Yes. You only need to go to dslreports to get a flavor of this. It is getting progressively more annoying. ATT for instance, is not delivering what they promise.

Everytime I talk to someone about capacity for moving anything, voice, data, video whatever, its like "rates are getting cheaper all the time".

The cable companies very soon will be introducing a primitive form of QoS. That means that rates will be rising based on use, but the basic rate should tend to hold in contrast to the existing upward pressure to raise the basic rate. The pressure comes from ever increasing use without ever increasing additions to capacity. It isn't profitable to add capacity unless QoS is available. In that case basic service would improve and remain at a constant price.

These conversations though are informal cocktail talk. So im not questioning the truth of your statement as much as how you came to this conclusion.

Rates aren't getting cheaper all the time in anything. Quite the opposite is occurring.
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