[Info-vax] A possible platform for VMS?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Richard Maher skrev den 2015-03-03 00:54:
> On 3/2/2015 10:45 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>
>> I just looked up Sweden and all but a few *very* low populated areas
>> in the far north has 10 Mb/s or better to over 90% of households.
>>
>> The governements goal is that at least 90% of all housholds and
>> business will have 100 Mb/s via fiber at year 2020.
>>
>>
>
> What's your tax rate?
>
> Here the govt wants to rollout some NBN (National Broadband Network) the
> biggest EVER publicly funded project while cutting old age pensions and I
> say NO! Let the movie pirates and pedophiles pay for the speed if they want
> it.

That is a good point. Do we realy need 100 Mb/s? What are
the critical applications that are really needed?
Internet banking is probably first in the line as the
bank offices shutdown and begins to ask for high fees
to pay bills directly at the counter. That as such needs
just a few Mb/s.

eMail maybe also a few Mb/s. Skype is widely used over
here, many have reallatives "overseas". Maybe a few Mb/s
if used in sound-only mode.

The gaming folks really need low "ping" times, not the
massive bandwidth as such. Well, the new server based
games are another matter...

IP-TV needs 2-5 Mb/s. IP-Telephone maybe a few Mb/s.

So yes, for the large amount of users, 100 Mb/s is usualy
way over what really is "needed".

Jan-Erik.