High-Bandwidth Users Are Just Early Adopters 162
silverpig writes "Cisco has released a whitepaper on mobile data usage which has some interesting data in it. The top 1% of users consume 20% of the bandwidth, but that share is down from 30% previously. 'Regular' users are catching up as they watch more video. High-bandwidth users of today will be relatively average users by 2015, so network operators should look to those users for insight in designing their future networks."
Wait a second.... (Score:4, Insightful)
This is a real shocker. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:But.. But... (Score:4, Insightful)
That means I actually have to spend money on my network!
The fact that this is a white paper by a company selling network equipment didn't set off anybody's conflict of interest meter?
IPv4 (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:But.. But... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:But.. But... (Score:5, Insightful)
There's a difference between "conflict of interest" and "we know what we're talking about," although the two do sometimes overlap.
Re:But.. But... (Score:5, Insightful)
On the other hand, look at the infrastructure difference between the US and other countries. Sure, we have rural areas, but in urban areas we aren't getting the level of service that happens in Japan or Korea or even (I think?) some European countries. This is after having "loaned" telecom companies massive amounts of money to build infrastructure, and they (mostly) did not.
When you consider that everyone and their mom is now using Youtube, and wanting to do video phone calls, Skype, streaming Netflix, etc, it's hard to argue with Cisco's conclusions (at least, as the summary stated them ;)). In five or ten years, demand for streaming video will likely be even higher, and that's just the most obvious one.
Re:IPv4 (Score:5, Insightful)
>>>Their main concern is minimizing expenses while maximizing profit.
It is a logical choice.
- The longer you wait, the cheaper upgrading becomes. Upgrade to a 3000 megahertz single core P4 five years ago and spend $1500. Make the same upgrade today and spend $150. The same decreasing cost applies to upgrades in Servers and DSL or cable or fiber lines.
FUD is much cheaper (Score:4, Insightful)
Just call them "bandwidth hogs," oversell your capacity, and blame your connectivity problems on the people using most of the flow they paid for.