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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (32129)	11/19/2009 4:47:15 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

"NZ's prime minister Robert Muldoon used to say that he wasn't worried about deficits and neither was the public because they wouldn't know one if they fell over it. [ ... ] I don't know what GigE is either." Muldoon's quip may have seemed true, but that has little to do with how end users respond to increases in the amount of connectivity (as expressed by an increase in bit-rate) they have at their disposal. During today's fcc.gov hearing [#msg-26111329] several commenters, including Verizon's Dick Lynch and Amsterdam's Herman Wagter, made it crystal clear that users, if given the opportunity to use faster bit rates (especially over symmetrical pipes, in the case of Amsterdam) quickly find more ways to use it than is comprehensible, even after sufficient time to study the matter. Also, as David P. Reed (MIT) noted, and I'm paraphrasing here, aside from the amount of payload that can be accessed and downloaded per unit of time, per se, what is equally important, if not more so, is the instantaneous response one receives over a gigabit pipe due to lower latencies. The upshoot from this is greater uptake and overall usage, since it creates a sense of being in the 'now' as opposed to sending away for information to be delivered at a later time. And obviously, if one is not standing around waiting for downloads, then they've more time available to them to engage other applications as well. Contrast the page load times for 100kbps vs. 1 or 10 Mbps, for example, and then slice that time again by a factor of ten or 100 still. Of course one could always suggest they never needed such capabilities in the past, hence could probably go on living without it forever. And many, I'm sure, will. Until, of course, they learn that they can no longer communicate with peers via Facebook, Twitter and Google Apps without upgrading to line speeds that support HD video delivery -- which, as one commenter today noted, is very likely to occur. ------