Well, let's say that Verizon has, in a given city, 8 Gbps of download bandwidth, and they currently have 6 Mbps connections for all of their customers. What they might currently do for their Video On Demand service is take all of the hi-def video that comes into their city central office, down-convert it to a lower bitrate, then push it to the customer. If they suddenly have more bandwidth between the central office and each home, then there's no need for down-conversion; they can feed the source video directly to the set-top box, and you get full-quality video.
There's plenty that they could do with more intra-city bandwidth, but I know they won't bother until they can provide more inter-city bandwidth as well.:/
Fair enough; I've never terminated single-mode fiber. I only even have a tiny bit of experience as a user of single-mode; almost all of my fiber dealings have been multi-mode.
I wasn't suggesting that a repeater would be a trivial solution though -- I did say "if it's a critical piece of fiber". I know they'd require power, but if you really needed a repeater, I would assume you'd go to the trouble of getting power to it, like having the power company allow you to tap into nearby powerlines, if they exist.
I didn't know that fusion splicing was that easy, so I hereby retract my post.:)
Well, what I'd do is take the cut ends, terminate them both, and put a coupler in the middle. It won't be "good as new", but it'll do pretty well. If it's a critical piece of fiber, you could put a repeater in, and theoretically improve the performance.
Re-terminating a fiber by hand takes less than 15 minutes, (I've only done it once, so it may even be well under 10 minutes for someone who does it all the time) and you'll have performance nearly as good as before.
That's no reason not to have a massive multi-path infrastructure within cities.
Personally, I'd love to see cities implement GPONs (Gigabit ethernet Passive Optical Networks) within the cities, even if they kept the same connection for external traffic. Imagine downloading the Ubuntu 9.10 ISO on BitTorrent, finding a seeder in your city, and having the download speed limited by your hard drive write speed!
When I got my wisdom teeth out, I was put under. I don't remember a thing, but my mom said that I was talking the whole time, even though she couldn't understand me from all the gauze.
While I was in the chair: "Mah hah duh hah." "Chabo?" [obviously, name changed] "Eh?" "Go to sleep." "Uh huh." [SNORE]
While leaving: "Ok, time to go..." "Can you grab my book? I don't want to leave it here." "I have it already, let's go." "Mom?" "Yeah?" "This feels quite a bit like being drunk!" "Ok, let's go..."
In the car: "Do you mind if I sleep on the way home?" "Sure." [SNORE]
I don't remember a thing until 4 hours later, when I woke up on the couch.
Really? I find that the bathroom and kitchen lights are the two lights that get turned on for the least amount of time. My desk light and living room lamp, on the other hand, get used for hours before being turned off.
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Allow me to rephrase:
What kind of computer water-cooling system lets the water evaporate into the air?
... What kind of water-cooling system lets the water evaporate into the air?
I'm pretty sure it should be "whoever" in this case, especially since "who" makes sense in your parent's post, and "whom" doesn't.
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What I meant was that last I'd heard, Verizon was using older, slower-than-Gigabit PONs for their fiber-to-the-home services.
I prefer myFace.
I think he meant "0.7 kilobytes per second", but put "kb" because it's easier. Most applications report in bytes anyway, not bits.
The MP3 is the format that's being served up by the government's website.
The reason the format is mentioned in the article so prominently is the irony, as I stated above.
It must be because you're not in California. I am, and my download's going ten times faster than that. Sucker!
It's called irony.
Is Verizon really doing GPONs now? Last I heard, it was slower PONs, not even ethernet-based, in the area of 20-50Mbps.
Heh. I enjoy that you linked to the "Kids page". Nice, simple explanation of what can be patented.
Maybe send that link over to the MPEG-LA?
Well, let's say that Verizon has, in a given city, 8 Gbps of download bandwidth, and they currently have 6 Mbps connections for all of their customers. What they might currently do for their Video On Demand service is take all of the hi-def video that comes into their city central office, down-convert it to a lower bitrate, then push it to the customer. If they suddenly have more bandwidth between the central office and each home, then there's no need for down-conversion; they can feed the source video directly to the set-top box, and you get full-quality video.
There's plenty that they could do with more intra-city bandwidth, but I know they won't bother until they can provide more inter-city bandwidth as well. :/
Fair enough; I've never terminated single-mode fiber. I only even have a tiny bit of experience as a user of single-mode; almost all of my fiber dealings have been multi-mode.
I wasn't suggesting that a repeater would be a trivial solution though -- I did say "if it's a critical piece of fiber". I know they'd require power, but if you really needed a repeater, I would assume you'd go to the trouble of getting power to it, like having the power company allow you to tap into nearby powerlines, if they exist.
I didn't know that fusion splicing was that easy, so I hereby retract my post. :)
Well, what I'd do is take the cut ends, terminate them both, and put a coupler in the middle. It won't be "good as new", but it'll do pretty well. If it's a critical piece of fiber, you could put a repeater in, and theoretically improve the performance.
Re-terminating a fiber by hand takes less than 15 minutes, (I've only done it once, so it may even be well under 10 minutes for someone who does it all the time) and you'll have performance nearly as good as before.
That's no reason not to have a massive multi-path infrastructure within cities.
Personally, I'd love to see cities implement GPONs (Gigabit ethernet Passive Optical Networks) within the cities, even if they kept the same connection for external traffic. Imagine downloading the Ubuntu 9.10 ISO on BitTorrent, finding a seeder in your city, and having the download speed limited by your hard drive write speed!
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When I got my wisdom teeth out, I was put under. I don't remember a thing, but my mom said that I was talking the whole time, even though she couldn't understand me from all the gauze.
While I was in the chair:
"Mah hah duh hah."
"Chabo?" [obviously, name changed]
"Eh?"
"Go to sleep."
"Uh huh." [SNORE]
While leaving:
"Ok, time to go..."
"Can you grab my book? I don't want to leave it here."
"I have it already, let's go."
"Mom?"
"Yeah?"
"This feels quite a bit like being drunk!"
"Ok, let's go..."
In the car:
"Do you mind if I sleep on the way home?"
"Sure."
[SNORE]
I don't remember a thing until 4 hours later, when I woke up on the couch.
So for bathrooms, and kitchens they are good.
Really? I find that the bathroom and kitchen lights are the two lights that get turned on for the least amount of time. My desk light and living room lamp, on the other hand, get used for hours before being turned off.
For an overhead ceiling light, or an exterior light, paying significantly more may be worth it if the extra expense gives you a much greater lifetime.
I know that I'd be willing to pay handsomely for an LED light bulb if I know it means I'll never need a ladder in my apartment again.
Personally, I think this article should've been posted a day later so we could've talked about the new ".gold rush of 4/9"...
And for you whacky Europeans, it still works if you do 04/09 instead, then it'll last the whole month!
Well no wonder nobody finds your site: you made a post about your fancy new domain name without even so much as shameless plug!
On a related note, try FlacSquisher today!
I know /. is sick of "Obligatory XKCD" posts, but I have to post this one...
http://xkcd.com/311/
I agree with most of what David Kopel says in this article:
http://www.davekopel.com/NRO/2003/Bowling-Truths.htm
He's an expert on the Second Amendment, and has researched the film extensively in an effort to undo what Michael Moore has done.
Yes, thank you. I did mean "glazier".
Hell, it may be a reference to that, but I always took it as a reference to Comic Book Guy: "Worst. Episode. Ever.", and such.