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> 25Mb doesn't cost any more or less to provide than say 500Mb in reality. If your last mile infrastructure supports those speeds then it supports those speeds.
by throw0101d 3y ago
> 25Mb doesn't cost any more or less to provide than say 500Mb in reality. If your last mile infrastructure supports those speeds then it supports those speeds. Even the cheapest router possible to buy will do 500Mb.
It can once you start adding up all the customers and worrying about 'upstream' connectivity.
One thousand customers at 500Mb can potentially saturate a 400Gb link; one thousand at 25Gb cannot. One has to do capacity planning and average and worst case scenarios to worry about, especially at peak times.
- matt-p 3y agoIt's only slightly more peaky, and there is no more, or very little additional aggregate bandwidth used. I promise you if you've got 2 x 100G links out of an exchange you will not be able to visually tell from the traffic profile which is 5000 500Mb customers Vs 4000 25Mb customers and 1000 500Mb customers.