How much is enough or is there No Such Thing?-00-4851

In a previous article we examined the evolution of residential bandwidth offerings. Since 1996, bandwidth offered to the bag has grown 1,000% and the price per 1kbps of this bandwidth has dropped 90%. Taking these previous trends into statement it is predicted that by 2011 the retail price per 1kbps module be around 0.0273 cents which amounts to most $27.30/month for 100Mbps. While that doesn't sound likewise bad, digit has to communicate the question, how much do consumers rattling need? What if different computers and processors, bandwidth has a ceiling? If the obligation for bandwidth were to level off the resulting bandwidth glut would send residential data assist prices into a free-fall. In a try to get our arms around bandwidth demand, Table 1.0 describes bandwidth activity rates for popular media types regularly consumed today as substantially as an up-and-coming High Definition Television (HDTV) service.
Media Type Particulars (if any) Bandwidth Consumption Rate:
HDTV Video 1080i MPEG4 quality 6-8Mbps

Video DVD quality 3.5 Mbps

Audio CD quality 1.4 Mbps

Voice VoIP using G.711 Codec 0.0872 Mbps

Online gaming Average 0.024 Mbps

Radio Average 0.025 Mbps

Table 1.0 Streaming Media Bandwidth Consumption Rates (as of 5/2005)
Note that none of these transmission types are no more than 8Mbps. Meaning that if you poverty to obtain a HDTV recording to a bag every you requirement is most a 8Mbps tube or larger. Today's band services are commonly substance between 4-6Mbps and in whatever cases substance 16Mbps or even 100Mbps which effectuation that the gates are open for any assist who crapper hold to course recording down to consumer homes crapper substance recording services including switched digital recording offerings.
In Table 1.0, another form of media on the cyberspace was not listed (such as scheme pages, emails, instant messaging, etc.) While clearly many forms of media consume bandwidth, they do not course (or equal long durations of bandwidth consumption). With this information in hand, the next question asked was how frequently do consumers request these types of services or content? Table 2.0 provides whatever details around annual activity (take) rates for different transmission that have been drawn from related drawing who sources are hyperlinked.
Media Type Basis Frequency/per Home
DVD Purchases 15.5 b sales
15 purchases/year*
DVD Rentals 5.7 billion rentals 21 rentals/year*
Phone Calls 221 min/mo, 4.5 min/call
588 calls/year
TV Viewing 4.42 hours/day, 3.1 TVs/home
1,612 hours/year
Online Gaming 13 hours/week
676 hours/year
Music Downloads 240 million/month p2p, 26 million buys
13.25 downloads/year
CD Purchases 11.3 purchases/year, 11 songs/CD
11.3 purchases/year
Internet Browsing 16 hours/week, 1.4 Computers/home
1,165 hours/year
Radio Listening 43.5 hours/week
2,262 hours/year
Text Messages 15 messages/week
780 messages/year
Table 2.0 Media Consumption Frequency (as of 1/6/2005)
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$14.95 cipher retail cost of DVD (estimated)
70 million homes in US with a DVD player
$3.95 cipher retail cost of DVD rental (estimated)
240 million homes in US with digit or more computers