New network quality rules will mean more fibre, Canadian IXPs: experts
telecom | 07/17/2018 12:12 pm EDT
To meet the CRTC’s basic service standard, internet service providers (ISPs) must provide a service with a latency of 50 milliseconds (ms) between a customer’s modem and an internet exchange point (IXP) in a major Canadian city, and have less than 0.25 per cent packet loss, according to new standards set by the regulator.
One consequence of the new standards will be to encourage fibre deployment, according to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority’s (CIRA) chief technical officer
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