Jul 06, 2021 06:00:00

The Electronic Frontier Foundation recommends that the United States needs an infrastructure with 'download speed 100Mbps & upload speed 100Mbps'

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which works to protect the right to freedom of speech in the digital society, says that the Internet line to be laid has 'download speed 100 Mbps & upload speed 100 Mbps or more' regarding the 'national total broadband' plan being promoted by the Byden administration. We set standards and recommended that fiber optic infrastructure be built nationwide.

The Future Is in Symmetrical, High-Speed Internet Speeds | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/future-symmetrical-high-speed-internet-speeds

By the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), but the demand for 'Internet' was increasing rapidly, that in the United States does not broadband Internet is prevalent in about 23 percent of the national situation it is. In response to this situation, the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplementary Budget Law (COVID Relief Law), which passed the parliament in December 2020, decided to invest a total of 3.2 billion dollars (about 356 billion yen) in various Internet services for the poor. In addition to this, the Biden administration announced in April 2021 the American Jobs Plan, a plan to reinforce the United States, to provide 100 billion dollars (about 11 trillion) to 'national total broadband' to provide broadband Internet to all citizens. Yen) is said to be thrown.

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This injection of public funds is expected to form a nationwide broadband network in the United States. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has recommended that a standard of 'download speed (downlink) 100 Mbps & upload speed (uplink) 100 Mbps or higher' should be set for this broadband network.

At the core of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's claim is that the current standard of '100 Mbps downlink & 20 Mbps uplink' can be realized with existing cables laid by major Internet service providers such as Comcast and Charter Communications. If you decide to continue using your cable, you will have to lay a new cable in the future.

From the 1980s to the present day, the Internet bandwidth used by consumers

has continued to grow at a pace of '21% increase every year.' According to the broadband network company OpenVault , as of 2021, the average bandwidth used by consumers is '207 Mbps downlink & 16 Mbps uplink'. Applying the annual growth rate of 21% to this value, the bandwidth required per user in 2026 is calculated to exceed '500 Mbps downlink & 40 Mbps uplink'. Furthermore, on the upstream side, the growth rate is accelerating due to the expansion of demand for remote learning and remote work due to pandemics, and OpenVault said that the usage of upstream bandwidth increased by 63% from December 2019 to December 2020. As we have reported, it is expected that the line speed of 'upstream 20 Mbps' assumed in the current plan as mentioned above will be significantly insufficient in the long run.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is proposing a solution to this problem, 'replacement with optical fiber.' According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, optical fiber can not only achieve a line speed of 'downlink 100 Mbps & uplink 100 Mbps', but can easily reach 'downlink 1000 Mbps & uplink 1000 Mbps' and 'downlink 10,000 Mbps & uplink 10,000 Mbps' by replacing the hardware. It is achievable. Therefore, the Electronic Frontier Foundation claims that optical fiber can withstand not only the current problem of 'uplink 100 Mbps' but also long-term growth of bandwidth usage.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation said that the replacement with optical fiber would be in the long-term national interest, and mentioned that China has been promoting the replacement policy with optical fiber since 2013. 'The United States will be left behind as it is.' Is issuing a warning.