ISP: High resolution video will

It seems that every day, at least once you encounter a pop-up window advertising for some online video download service. From the TV series "Desperate Housewives" to the cool scenes, everything is there.

Source: AP

You excited of it? But is the Internet like you?

The ISP cried out

The answer from Internet, telephone and cable service providers is "No". Small clips are fine, but TV-quality shows and especially high-resolution shows can make the Internet choke.

Currently, most of our Internet activities take place quickly, quickly, check email here, go through a website there. But imagine, if we were to watch streaming videos via the web just like when watching TV - at least a few hours / time, the Internet would have to suffer a terrible load.

Of course, the initial infrastructure of the Internet could not bear this load, and the cost to upgrade the network's capacity, preventing the deadly phenomenon from happening was extremely, extremely expensive.

To cover some of the costs, ISPs want to collect "extra" fees for content providers. If you do not pay this fee, there is no guarantee that large video files will be sent to the destination.

Many people responded violently to this plan, arguing that it would stifle creativity and "unfair". They want the law to guarantee a "neutral" Internet world, but it seems that prospects are very fragile.

The key to the problem lies in the question: What is the real cost that ISPs have to pay for their hours of online video clips every day?

Obviously, ISPs hide their songs very well, but there are ways for us to guess their erasure.

What a story

Let's start from the data. According to research firm TeleGeography, a continuous, 1 Mb / second connection to the backbone Internet in the Atlanta center will take away ISPs from $ 10-20 per month. The ISP's job is to "transport" the data "flowing" from the other line to the user.

One Mbps doesn't sound like much, but ISPs always replicate the bandwidth when they transfer to users. It is estimated that ISPs often sell 30 times the amount of broadband so that end users can simultaneously connect to the Internet.

Thus, being able to understand broadband is almost the same as classical telephone service. The number of telephone lines from home to the local switchboard is always more than the number of lines from the switchboard. If everyone picks up for a while, there will be some calls that are not possible because there are not enough outgoing lines. But this rarely happens, so the system still works normally.

Dissolve the business model

For broadband networks, a 1 Mbps connection is enough to serve 40 DSL accounts, each reaching a maximum speed of 768 kb / sec, typically for a primary DSL connection. The cost to provide data to each DSL is only about 25 cents - 50 cents / user / month.

If these DSL accounts only use the Internet to surf the Web, read mail or occasionally download files, then nothing happens. But if all 40 subscribers try to download evening news bulletins to the computer for a while, there will definitely be a problem.

If the connection has a speed of 2Gb / s, ISPs lose about 1 USD. This is a small number compared to the 25-47 USD subscription / month they are charging for DSL, but of course, they also have to pay for sales, technical support, warranty and lots of expenses. No other name fees.

If 40 users start downloading 5 TV-quality movies every month, except for maintenance costs of DSL lines, ISPs will lose up to 4.5 USD / month. Anyway, it's not high enough to break their current business model.

But if users start watching Internet TV for 8 hours a day, the cost of ISPs will spike up to 112 USD / month.

In response to this "market breakdown", BellSouth plans to "cap" the types of online traffic data: whichever is free and which will incur a surcharge. Some other options are to charge a surcharge for the service provider, called "guarantee" money for their content to be shipped.

Meanwhile, protesters believe that allowing ISPs to charge additional fees also poses a risk. " Who knows if they use that charge to expand the line? " A Google official said.

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