<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div id="yiv5047650144"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_58339"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_58338"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><span id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53334">I fear we're straying wildly off-topic, but aren't they doing a 32-way split on 2.5Gbps of bandwidth ? Even if all of your 15 users are on 100Mbps plans (the max available right now) then they wouldn't be able to saturate the 2.5gbps bandwidth available (ie. 15 * 100 = 1.5gbps) ?</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><span id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_54041">NBN design specs also state that for SDU:</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242">"Extra fibres shall be allocated to provide future capacity. In total the effective allocation on average is three fibres per premises."</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><span>And for MDU:</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><span id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_54584">"For the range of MDUs from Small to Large, if contained within the same building or in close vicinity, a ratio of 1.5 fibres per residential dwelling is used."<br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242">So maximum number of premises connected right now should in theory only be 23-24 per splitter for MDU (32/1.5) and much less for SDU and hence under the maximum bandwidth for each split.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242">There isn't that much chance for congestion on the NBN fibre tails.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><span id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_56373"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_56372" target="_blank" href="http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco/documents/nbn-network-design-rules.pdf">http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco/documents/nbn-network-design-rules.pdf</a><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53242"><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"> <div id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53227" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"> <div id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53226" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12px;"> <div dir="ltr" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53225"> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv5047650144yqt7325473210" id="yiv5047650144yqtfd09294"><hr id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53241" size="1"> <font id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53228" size="2" face="Arial"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_58387"><span style="font-weight:bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_58386">From:</span></b> Jake Anderson <yahoo@vapourforge.com><br clear="none"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_58389"><span style="font-weight:bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_58388">To:</span></b> Paul Brooks <pbrooks-ausnog@layer10.com.au>; ausnog@lists.ausnog.net <br clear="none"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_58391"><span style="font-weight:bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_58390">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 5 December 2014, 11:19<br clear="none"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_58393"><span style="font-weight:bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_58392">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AusNOG] Netflix, AWS and Softlayer vs. Australia<br clear="none"> </font> </div></div><div class="yiv5047650144yqt7325473210" id="yiv5047650144yqtfd59650"> <div class="yiv5047650144y_msg_container" id="yiv5047650144yui_3_16_0_1_1417697048450_53229"><br clear="none">I'd be surprised if they didn't already monitor per customer volumes <br clear="none">anyway at some level, knowing how many end users are on which splitter <br clear="none">and how much data they are pushing at what time would be important to <br clear="none">balance congestion. IE the case of 15 heavy users all on the one <br clear="none">splitter, you can shuffle those users onto different splitters in the <br clear="none">one FDH so they don't tread on each others toes.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div></div><div class="yiv5047650144yqt7325473210" id="yiv5047650144yqtfd96451"> </div></div><div class="yiv5047650144yqt7325473210" id="yiv5047650144yqtfd07863"> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>