The latency is also where the bottleneck of really novel mass-market network applications sits, most of the time. Just looking at examples like: https://gist.gi

The latency is also where the bottleneck of really novel mass-market network applications sits, most of the time. Just looking at examples like: https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832 https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832 for a network to be usable as a somewhat fast SSD, you'd need a maximum latency of 0.15ms. And at that point all we have gained is a network that can be somewhat used like a 10 year old SSD. To then get to a really relevant latency we have to get to memory reference speeds, 100ns at most. That's 0.0001ms or something like that (might be off by one order of magnitude). But with a 0.6c limit, we're not going to get there. Like the other comment, having everyone get a much better minimum speed (say 500Mbps) and low base latency (say 1ms at most to the first IX you can get to) would make a huge difference. But to reference yet another comment, you'd probably just get 4K video ads and larger frameworks with less optimisation since the bandwidth takes care of it anyway.