The way the article conflates backbone link speed with end user connection speeds really irks me. For backbone link capacity, yes native 100G interfaces are a s

The way the article conflates backbone link speed with end user connection speeds really irks me. For backbone link capacity, yes native 100G interfaces are a step forward, but not in the way most people are going to assume. 100G of capacity is not a significant amount, either in 1x100G or 10x10G, when you already have optical transport equipment that can mux over 5T of capacity onto a single fiber pair. It is exciting the increases 100G coherent DWDM technologies bring in raising the capacity as well as the reach of transport systems.