I agree with the opinion that upstream is unlikely to be an issue.
I don’t agree that LFCs should be more concerned, you left out important considerations.
GPON is intended to be a shared medium, queuing occurs as required and impact will be minimal.
It is not as simple as “available bandwidth divided by users”
The whole point of the MAX (note I don’t call them 1gbps/500mbps) plans *IS* to allow the PON capacity to be consumed. Let customers burst to get things done, and move on. Bandwidth is allocated fairly.
This is also why:
1. Bandwidth utilisation of the PON ports today - even where there are schools, high proportion of MAX plans, etc - is single or, barely double digit percentages over a 5min period. Very few (i.e can count on a hand or 3) had over 50%.
Sure, this is likely to be changing as we speak, but it is meant to and is designed to.
1. Upstream queuing/shaping to get onto the PON segment is actually useful, as the 500mbps policer on the other side (required for us to mean SLAs) is not TCP friendly, if CPEs aren’t shaping to the actual plan rate
2. The GPON segment is not part of the CIP link utilisation reporting – it is understood across the industry that “congestion” here is actually just “using the available bandwidth as designed” and not really congestion at all.
Also of note, is that the high traffic class CIR and CBS is also prioritised timeslot allocation on the PON. If you want to guarantee bandwidth and SLAs(Frame Loss, Frame Delay and Frame Delay Variation) then look towards the BS3/3a services.
Cheers,
Brent
From: Peter Lambrechtsen
From personal experience 100/20 was more than satisfactory for a house of 5 when the kids (11/13/15) were mostly consuming CDN data rather than creating it being on a Video chat with their peers/school and parents are working from home over VPN while on video conferences too.
My bet is those who haven't upgraded to GB will probably do so in 2-3 weeks once all the kids go back to school as by that point the schools should hopefully be up to speed with remote learning.
I still think CFH regulated plans and thus LFCs are missing a widespread adoption of an in between plan to offer to RSPs a 100-200/50-100 plan (I think 200/100 is the sweet spot right now) and GB. As the ONT would police traffic over the upstream rate and only impact the single subscriber vs getting congestion on the upstream PON and it is detrimental for everyone on that PON port. It also would mean that more splitter visits and resplicing if required where certain PON ports that may be getting congested. But I haven't seen any anecdotal reports of that.
Or perhaps it is just RSPs keeping their plans simple to reduce FAB complexity and CFH/LFCs have no real say as they are already offering those plans and RSPs are chosing not to take them up.
But that is just my guess.
Cheers, Peter
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:57 PM Jason Orchard
From where I'm sitting in Enable Network (LFC), I can see a different changes to "normal" time of day trends compared to the last 3 week of "normal" utilisation. Once the whole country finally moved into level 4 lockdown, it's my opinion that all RSP and LFC network started to be tested, further to this last Friday night (27th) was the biggest peak utilisation Enable networks has every recorded.
While everyone is talking about how download utilisation has increased, we aren't talking about how the upload utilisation has also increase thought the roof and I'm just wonder what point the RSP and LFC will start having contention on the uploads?
Its good too see as a country we are all doing what we can to keep the internet running, and sharing information on overall performance.
I'm predicting that by about Thursday/Friday this week, we are all going to understand what the new Covid-19 utilisation "normal" looks like and we can plan for there.
Forecast models of utilisation growth is interesting to say the least, as there really isn't any historic data too looking back predict a patten and so far no one day has been the same as the other, we are keeping a very close eye working very hard to keep a contention free network, so the end user experience isn't impacted
On the most interesting things I've noticed when the country stop at Dinner Time as the overall utilisation decrease between 5.30pm and 6.30pm, then it ramps up again to the "normal" peaks 8-10.30pm.
Well that my 2 cents. @Ahmad Saeed (ahmad.saeed(a)huawei.com)mailto:ahmad.saeed(a)huawei.com Give me a call off the list and we can talk about your original questions.
Jason Orchard
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