Comment Bandwidth (Score 1) 19
So I ran some numbers. Let's assume that the average call is 5 minutes. Let's also assume that all of the calls are over a 12 hour period. That would be about 5.6 million concurrent calls. An E1 circuit can handle about 400 calls and uses about 2 Mbps. Scaling this up would result in about 28 Gbps. The FASTER undersea cable is 60 Tbps. Obviously the peak could be higher but still. Also if someone is calling someone at 5 kbps, they are not watching a video at 500 kbps. So how should be I be impressed?
