Re: [rohrpost] mikro.lounge #24 -- online stream

[axel vogelsang <axel_vogelsang@gmx.de>]

> mikro.lounge #24  --  Wir wollen Bandbreite!

tja das mit der bandbreite ist so ein problem und wird auch noch lange eins
bleiben, meint zumindest herr gary mc govern von nua:

13 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT BROADBAND/HIGH BANDWIDTH

1.      While fibre optic cable is being rolled out at a
frantic pace it is barely keeping up with overall bandwidth
demand. "In the next five years we don't see any ability of
service providers in the U.S. to keep up with the demand,"
Mouli Ramani, director of strategic marketing for the optical
Internet at Nortel Networks told Inter@ctive Week in February
2000. "I don't see any chance of getting into a glut anywhere
in the network over the next five years."
2.      The backbone of the Internet hasn't been designed to
deal with millions of people having broadband access
3.      The flat-fee 'use as much bandwidth as you like'
Internet pricing model is unworkable in a broadband environment
where one user might want to use hundreds or thousands time
more bandwidth than their neighbour
4.      The Internet works from a weakest link in the chain point
of view, so just because you have broadband access doesn't mean
that a particular website will download any faster
5.      Because of Internet limitations, broadband suppliers are
increasingly choosing private high-capacity networks to deliver
their services to subscriber-based audiences
6.      As yet, no broadband online entertainment companies have
gone public and many, such as Digital Entertainment Network,
have shed staff and re-focused their business models away from
creating original broadband content
7.      Yahoo and Lycos have scaled back content and service
plans for broadband users, citing the basic fact that for every
broadband user there are 50 with basic access
8.      Broadband access providers such as Pacific Bell,
Midwestern and @Home have been suffering severe email service
slowdowns recently, as broadband users send huge video and
sound files as email attachments
9.      Because broadband generally establishes 24-hour-a-day
connections to the Internet, it creates a serious security
threat. "The home user is more susceptible to someone coming
and stealing the information that is on their computer,"
David Remnitz, chief executive of IFsec LLC, a New York
network security firm told Nando Times in February 2000.
"They could be monitoring messages that are sent in or out of
that system, which could be things like bank routing numbers."
10.     In March, The Wall Street Journal reported that because
traffic was overwhelming the broadband networks of cable
companies, the numbers of houses served by a single cable
'node' were being reduced from 10,000, as originally projected,
to 500 or fewer. Many cable companies were being forced to
monitor individual usage
11.     The popularity of Napster and other such devices, which
allow people to easily swap music files, has slowed many
university campus networks to a crawl. Some universities
estimated that Napster downloads were using more than 50
percent of their available bandwidth
12.     Broadband is often supposed to allow the ugly duckling
Internet to grow up and become the television medium it's
always in its heart wanted to be. However, when @Home first
rolled out its broadband service in California three years
ago, it found that many of its subscribers were not
interested in broadband interactive entertainment, but were
rather @Work setting up web servers on their home computers
13.     Broadband is definitely a wave of the future, but it
has been hugely over-hyped and faces significant obstacles
before it becomes a reality for the average user

Gerry McGovern
<mailto:gerry@nua.ie>

warum sich nicht einfach mal damit auseinandersetzen, was mit dem web, ein
bischen kreativitaet und natuerlich know how alles so machbar ist.

http://www.sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm

diejenigen, die sich uber zuwenig bandbreite beklagen sollen fernseh
schauen.

gruss,


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