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* Up to 25Gbps... All over a connection that isn’t shared with your neighbors. Every home gets a dedicated 4-strand fiber line. Point-to-Point. Not shared. "
by userbinator 3mo ago
* Up to 25Gbps...
All over a connection that isn’t shared with your neighbors.
Every home gets a dedicated 4-strand fiber line. Point-to-Point. Not shared.
"dedicated" to where? Because you sure don't get a "dedicated" line to every server on the Internet! That's just not how computer networks work. It's obvious that if you have 1000 homes with 25G links you'll need 25T of bandwidth to be able to handle them all at full speed with no oversubscription, but no router or switch currently in existence can do 25T on a single link.
Edit: Do people here seriously not know how the Internet actually works!?!?
- hnav 3mo agoWe're all going to caching appliances deployed on the ISP's network these days anyway.
- realityking 3mo agoYour post is unnecessarily pedantic. The point the article makes is that they have a dedicated line to the next router unlike cable (DOCSIS) or GPON fiber where already the bandwidth of the last mile is shared among subscribers. It’s a lot easier for an ISP to add more uplink and router capacity over time than to rewire to dedicated fiber.
- Hikikomori 3mo ago>Edit: Do people here seriously not know how the Internet actually works!?!? They told you why your pedantic point isn't relevant and wrong. It is dedicated as its not shared like cable or PON, to the next hop wherever that may be, and anything dedicated is always just to a certain point where it stop being dedicated. That the Internet is not a full mesh topology is rather obvious, we haven't had that since the first few phone lines.
- userbinator 3mo agoto the next hop wherever that may be, and anything dedicated is always just to a certain point where it stop being dedicated You basically just showed how stupid the "but it's dEdIcAtEd!!11" argument is.
- Hikikomori 3mo agoIt doesn't mean anything more in any networking context...