<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I've seen this perceived issue pop up a few times in the media and now on AusNOG. I work for a wholesale open access network provider offering the same service bundles as NBN. We typically see daytime usage during school hours to be around 30% of the peak load. There is a ramp up to around 50% between 3pm and 5pm when the kids are home from school. </div><div><br></div><div>CVC entitlement is essentially a static value for any given 24 hour period and ISPs aim to ensure sufficient capacity at peak times.</div><div><br></div><div>This means that there is already more than 50% available capacity during business hours without changing anything at all.</div><div><br></div><div>If I look at a business application such as video conferencing, this seems to require somewhere between 10% (high quality) and 25% (high definition) of the bandwidth used to stream a HD netflix movie. These figures are from the Skype bandwidth recommendations. I would suggest that a person working from home performing a video conference on their PC or laptop wouldn't require anything more than the high quality stream. This should also hold true for students accessing an educational stream.</div><div><br></div><div>As with nightly peak usage (i.e. we don't have every subscriber utilising their connection constantly), I would doubt that all the remote workforce are spending 8 hours in video calls. So, we could pretty much run with the current unused daytime CVC could support a remote workforce that is 10x the size of the average nightly user base. I agree that there will be more people concurrently accessing services during the day if the worst happens and we all work from home, but will this be 10x the number consuming internet content during the evening?</div><div><br></div><div>Interesting days ahead to be sure and I'm going to be affected by the new load distribution so I'm quite keen to get input from the list.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 22:33, Bevan Slattery <<a href="mailto:bevan@slattery.net.au">bevan@slattery.net.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr">Asking for PM and NBN Co to double or triple allocated CVC for residential broadband bundles. Encourage people to view, like, comment and reshare! So many families are going to be working from home while kids are being schooled at home!</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bevanslattery_australia-nbn-coronavirus-activity-6645249493228982272-2bbj" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bevanslattery_australia-nbn-coronavirus-activity-6645249493228982272-2bbj</a><br>
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