Reminds me of when Wile E Coyote caught the Road Runner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=KJJW7EF5aVk#t=63s http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=KJJW7EF5aVk#t=63s Wh

Reminds me of when Wile E Coyote caught the Road Runner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=KJJW7EF5aVk#t=63s http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=KJJW7EF5aVk#t=63s What I want to know is what the backbone is. My guess is that the 1Gbps to the leaf nodes is good now because they don't have that many users and most of the users don't have a need that uses more than a small fraction of the 1Gbps (on average). What happens when they get 10s, 100s, or 1000s of homes / businesses signed up? When will they saturate their backbone? Once that happens, then what? Hmmm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Carrier_transmission_rates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Carrier_transmission_ra... says 40Gbps is top end and, based on the dates mentioned, there are probably quite a bit of connectivity at 2.5/10/40Gbps... but that is only 2/10/40 leaf nodes. This doesn't seem like it will scale very well :-/ Outdated info: There are a fair number of maps of the internet backbones on Google, but they tend to be undated and, I'm pretty sure, are grossly out of date (10+ years out of date). http://www.nthelp.com/maps.htm http://www.nthelp.com/maps.htm This looks more up-to-date: http://1stnt.com/uunet_backbone.htm http://1stnt.com/uunet_backbone.htm and http://1stnt.com/connectivity2.htm http://1stnt.com/connectivity2.htm Top speed backbone links on those maps are OC-48 (2.5Gbps).