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Originally Posted by theblueraja
Hmm,
Yeah bandwidth is a "rich mans" solution, but you need to provice that bandwidth across the whole of the internet, and in 10 years when everyone is trying to send video calls accross the internet someone is going to have to pay for it.
You got deep pockets?
Rich man,
QoS - NO!
Bandwidth - YES!
Average Joe
QoS - Yes!
Bandwidth - How much!
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Bandwidth - how much ?
This year x
next year 1/2 x
year after 1/4 x
year after 1/8 x
thats the reality of coat of bandwidth. We have seen the same example with other computing resources. People used to use 'sophisticated' techiques to save resources like computing power (coding in machine code), or storage space (like HD compression) - but with the price of these falling at moores law rate it's cheaper, simpler and more effective to 'throw resource' at them. With bandwidth though the issue of control is the real issue. Who will control what you can do with your connection. At the moment the end user has control (TCP=transmission CONTROL protocal). The current network owners would love to get that control back - and QoS is a great 'excuse' to do it. What you will end up with is a network that looks more like the mobile phone companies networks than the internet. Throwing bandwidth at the problem is not the expensive option - it's the cheap option !