[AusNOG] AAB Statement

[Tom Lanyon]

On 02/09/2010, at 4:18 PM, James Spenceley wrote:
> Think about how often you download a file and it comes in much slower than your line rate DSL ... will having 1gbps fix this ?  How often do you get a torrent at full line rate ?
> 
> Even the singapore FTTH model, that has been held up as the mantle of what we are trying to achieve has a 100-200mbps line rate but a limit of 15mbps of International capacity (and International is much cheaper in .sg than here). Do we want that solution ?

Would a 1Gbps last-mile make Australia more attractive for content providers to run/trial new high-bandwidth services locally?

Tom