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Interestingly 2.5Gb cable modems are also imminent. Yes early adopters are the market right now but as they purchase equipment it will drive down adoption cost
by technofiend 6y ago
Interestingly 2.5Gb cable modems are also imminent. Yes early adopters are the market right now but as they purchase equipment it will drive down adoption costs due to economy of scale gradually kicking in.
- close04 6y agoGoing to 2.5G seems like a wasted opportunity to go "big" without causing disruptions repeatedly or have "too much" extra cost. From the user perspective at least there's pretty much no difference between 2.5G and 5G in terms of cost and inconvenience of upgrading all the hardware). But for the manufacturers and ISPs I imagine at that large scale the relatively small cost savings add up. And why waste a good opportunity to sell an intermediary tech. They'll be able to sell 5G/10G in a few years.