Actually Ghost raises a valid concern. FTTx WILL be a holy grail when it's widely deployed - but that's not the case yet. The RBOCs are digging up the streets as fast as possible, but it takes time to lay cable. Point to point traffic will present problems if VoD takes off - not over the backbone, but at the regional level where the lines get thinner. This is why cable VoD is far less than 40% deployed right now. Should the take-up of on-demand services find sudden favor, there is definitely a congestion issue to contend with. Most VoD networks are set-up to handle 10% concurrency (a rate rarely met today). But the market can suddenly decide that on-demand is in - and then cable VoD will be SoL.
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
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Actually Ghost raises a valid concern. FTTx WILL be a holy grail when it's widely deployed - but that's not the case yet. The RBOCs are digging up the streets as fast as possible, but it takes time to lay cable. Point to point traffic will present problems if VoD takes off - not over the backbone, but at the regional level where the lines get thinner. This is why cable VoD is far less than 40% deployed right now. Should the take-up of on-demand services find sudden favor, there is definitely a congestion issue to contend with. Most VoD networks are set-up to handle 10% concurrency (a rate rarely met today). But the market can suddenly decide that on-demand is in - and then cable VoD will be SoL.