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Article #433Re: video conferencing - death to cable?
From: Randy S.
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 21:32
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 21:32
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Albert Hennesy wrote: > It seems to me from this discussion that a moderate > usage of video conferencing would be death for cable > data service as it now exists. Video conferencing involves > symmetric and non-bursty data streams and to-the-max > uplink speeds. How could cable ISPs handle this without > adding another prohibited usage to their list? > > Al_Hennesy I believe that you are *precisely* on the money here, and this is _specifically_ why Lawrence is concerned (or disappointed, or surprised, or whatever) that so many of the big companies (like AT&T) are betting the whole ball of wax on cable infrastructure. For all intents and purposes, any customer doing 2 way video IS a server, and as such just a few of them could utterly halt a cable segment. Since video conferencing, etc, is in the planned future of the Internet, do we really want whole sections of our infrastructure depending on a technology that can't handle it? Randy S.
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