[clug] Trump Telstra once and for all

[Paul TBBle Hampson]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:48:16AM +1000, Andrew Goodall wrote:
> On 10/10/2006, at 10:48 PM, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:

> >I _think_ it used to be possible to squeeze three lower-bitrate channels
> >through an ISG, but it seems that's been blocked on the network now,
> >from discussions on this list.

> Sorry, I should have been more specific. Its the Ethernet data that we
> were testing limits on. You're correct in pointing out that you can
> push heaps of video traffic down the ISG.

LOL. You managed to get 13Mb/s out of the 10Mb/s hub on the ethernet
side of the ISG? That's both a relief, and a heck of a feat. ^_^

And a relief, in so far as upping the speeds on the ISG _might_ be as
easy as retrofitting a 100BaseT MAC onto the ISG... Hmm, that's a less
bleak result than the one I got from this discussion yesterday.

> TransACT imposed a two-stream limit on the ISG a couple of years ago
> in the interests of limiting access network bandwidth contention.
> Prior to that I had also seen towards half a dozen streams through the
> ISG.

If we accept the anecdotal understanding I have that there's a 155Mb/s
OC-3 to each of the pole-top boxes serving up to 50 customers, then
that's a pretty good reason to limit people to two simultaneous channels
at a time.

Of course, I strongly doubt that number, since I can't see how someone
would have multiplied 50 * 8 and gotten a value less then 155... Even in
1998, when "broadband" meant sharing a 2Mb/s cable TV downstream with
the rest of your suburb... (Back in the days when the opposite of
broadband was baseband, not "narrowband")

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