[opendtv] Re: News: Netflix Partner Says Comcast 'Toll' Threatens Onli
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 07:17:37 -0500
At 2:56 PM -0600 12/3/10, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
No, it's not, and it's also a labor-intensive
process. However, do feel free to provide the
detail necessary to back up your assertion.
Just look at the capital investment in the cable
plants over the past decade. Yes it was labor
intensive. But that investment was made and the
infrastructure is in place. I would also point
out that the telcos have dark fiber, that we have
been paying for, in my front yard.
PONs, Craig. They installed PONs. And they have
to have a backhaul network to tie together the
neighborhood PONs. There's nothing trivial about
upgrading these nets to accommodate high average
loads, as opposed to accommodating the previous
high peak loads only.
Those back haul networks were built when they
upgraded to 750MHz/1GHz plants to enable the
delivery of digital services. If there is a
significant opportunity to expand the network to
reach new customers, especially business
broadband and telephone customers, they will run
the fibers and wires in a heartbeat. We just
added cable phone and broadband at Swamp Head;
but it required a two year contract to help cover
the cost of bringing the service to our building.
As for the load factors, that just a network
design issue based on statistics. As I said
before, you simply sub-divide the branches as the
load goes up. This was all designed into the last
infrastructure build.
We agree that the costs to provision HD capable broadband service
will be paid by the customer in the form of higher rates. The real
question here is whether the ISPs will be allowed to add on
ADDITIONAL fees for connection to specific networks and/or servers?
This thread was about Comcast trying to get the
needed revenue from Netflix, and therefore
indirectly from Netflix subscribers only. So,
this is not an ADDITIONAL fee at all. This is
the way of differentiating service.
No Bert, it is an additional fee for the ability
to connect to and use the Netflix servers.
Here's a fundamental point to consider: the
concept of network QoS is totally meaningless if
it doesn't go hand in hand with differentiated
COSTS OF SERVICE. All we are talking about here
is how you differentiate the cost of service,
for different categories of subscribers.
Been there done that.
http://ww2.cox.com/residential/centralflorida/internet.cox
Cox offers three pricing level. The descriptions
and pricing are from the website:
Essential - $25/mo for 12 months then $37.99/mo
Speeds up to 3 Mbps, ideal for email and simple web surfing.
Preferred - $35/mo for 12 months then $51.99/mo
Speeds up to 15 Mbps with PowerBoost®, great for music and photos.
Premier - $66.99/mo
Speeds up to 30 Mbps with PowerBoost®, perfect for gaming and movies.
When you pay this kind of money for different QOS
levels, there should be NO shenanigans with
respect to the source of the bits.
Regards
Craig
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