The whole 5 nines aspect is interesting. I wonder why there isn't more cheaper more unreliable service available for customers built on cheaper hardware using less reliable infrastructure. Laser Links to cross distances etc.
I imagine consumers would be fine with 95% uptime of a gigabit connection compared to 99,99999% uptime of 16mbit.
>I imagine consumers would be fine with 95% uptime of a gigabit connection compared to 99,99999% uptime of 16mbit.
I can guarantee that nobody would be okay with 95% uptime. That means that your Internet access is down for over an hour every day. Given that people go berserk when their Internet is down for even a few minutes, 95% uptime will be unacceptable to consumers.
Depends which hour it's down. Plenty of people would be happy to have their internet down from 3-4 am every morning if it meant they paid $10/month instead of $70/month.
FWIW, many of the people selling five nines would just claim those 3-4am windows as "scheduled maintenance" and go down for an hour every night anyway whether they need to or not...
(Actually, if I were an evil ISP lawyer/marketer, I'd try to claim a "Maintenance window of 1hr downtime sometime between 4am and 3am", then ignore any downtime of less than an hour during the day and if you complained about not getting yur expensive five nines I'd laugh and say "published schedule maintenance not included!"...)
That means that you either have to provide an LTE connection for every customer, which would entirely defeat the purpose of your main connection, or your customers would need to have their own LTE connection, which would entirely defeat the purpose of your service in general.
I imagine consumers would be fine with 95% uptime of a gigabit connection compared to 99,99999% uptime of 16mbit.