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Re:Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass by jauer on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:55PM (#11958393)
Right now you can get away with a lot of "oversubscription" in MDU situations when you have 1-2Gbps to the building (typical millimeter-wave radio speeds).

I wouldn't be surprised if they have buildings fed with 1x1Gbps going to 40x1Gbps clients.

(hand waving about Erlangs and queuing theory here) E.g. if you assume everyone is downloading a DVD image from a fast mirror (CentOS install DVD or something), they probably won't all start the download at the same time so there's a really good chance one user will finish their download before someone else starts theirs.

My MDU users rarely crack 1Mbps on a 30-day 95th percentile basis.

Re:Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass by gkop on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @10:26PM (#11958484)
Are you preparing for popular streaming video products pushing 4K content?
Re:Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass by jauer on Thursday June 23, 2016 @02:24AM (#11959201)
A popular model is to use wireless until enough you have enough customers in a building to justify building out fiber so you can supply more bandwidth. Even without fiber you could have a 50 unit building with half the units streaming 4K@30Mbps simultaneously and have enough bandwidth left over for typical web use.