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Ever? Yes, of course. Right now ? No. 10Gbit/s Internet connectivity sounds like a lot, but it's only 10 times the speed of what we have now. Think about RAM,
by dusted 5y ago
Ever? Yes, of course. Right now ? No.
10Gbit/s Internet connectivity sounds like a lot, but it's only 10 times the speed of what we have now.
Think about RAM, CPU frequency, non-volatile storage, and graphical rendering capability these have increased orders of magnitude, as have Internet connection speed.
I don't know what it will be used for, but I'm certain that new use-cases will reveal themselves as that speed becomes broadly available.
It will certainly allow new business models, for things like storage of raw video and video editing, but broadly, I think it's unexplored territory.
- basicplus2 5y agoIts about 800 times faster than what we get in Australia and call "Broadband" (on a really good day)
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoThere's plenty of Americans that are getting 1/1000th of 10Gbps, and plenty more that would be thankful if they could even get that much, too.
- Gigachad 5y ago>but it's only 10 times the speed of what we have now. The average fast internet speed most people have right now is 100mbps and there are vanishingly few use cases which require more than this. Pretty much all video streaming including multiple users is easily covered by 100mbps. It comes down almost only to video game downloads where you want it to download in 5 minutes rather than 30. But it seems unlikely that games would gain all that much by expanding their file sizes by 100x without moving to a streaming model so users don't have to fill their storage with content they will never see.