Reply to post: Re: contention ratios

Openreach asks UK what it thinks about 10 million 'full fibre' connections

Mad Mike

Re: contention ratios

@Dazed and Confused.

The issue with 3G and 4G is just the same as for WiFi. At the end of the day, the available bandwidth must be shared by all users and as the user numbers climb, speeds slow or become unstable. The only answer is to open up more bandwidth to enable more channels etc. and therefore increase total bandwidth. This is one of the areas where a cable connection actually helps as you have dedicated capacity, at least until aggregation and uplinks come into play. However, fibre has a far greater capacity than other mediums and you can use DWDM etc. to increase that even further.

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