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What are you really going to do with a 1gbps residential connection, that doesn't sound as tentative and outlandish as my plan to push a shopping cart full of i
by mseebach 11y ago
What are you really going to do with a 1gbps residential connection, that doesn't sound as tentative and outlandish as my plan to push a shopping cart full of iPhones streaming their own episode of GoT down the street? (it's art, don't ask)
This isn't about having a feasible plan to exhaust the new standard using current technology and use cases, it's about pushing the new standard as far as possible (within technological limits), so it can last as long as possible without needing to be redesigned. Also, reality has a nasty habit of catching up to the possible much faster than anticipated.
- avian 11y agoIt's funny how each standard is made to "last as long as possible without needing to be redesigned". LTE stands for "long term evolution" - as in "we made this standard so that it will be possible to evolve it according to demands without total redesign". It has been in commercial use for what, 4 years? As far as I know, current plans for 5G are "screw LTE, we'll redesign it from the ground up".