Wednesday, June 23, 2010

FaceTime Would Crash Mobile Cell Sites

At 667 Kbps, just 20 FaceTime users would saturate a 14 Mbps HSPA based 3G cell even if one assumes no scarcity at the base station backhaul, and that every user was in perfect range operating at the peak transmission/receive rates, and that there was no other traffic on the network.

No comments:

How Electricity Charging Might Change

It now is easy to argue that U.S. electricity pricing might have to evolve in ways similar to the change in retail pricing of communication...