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Please define an actual use-case for 10G burst to the home. The reality is that the most important parts of the network are not the last mile, but all of the i
by evgen 17y ago
Please define an actual use-case for 10G burst to the home. The reality is that the most important parts of the network are not the last mile, but all of the interconnects upstream and at the peering points.
This sounds nice, but provides no real benefit to the end-user over a 100M connection that was actually backed by infrastructure that could maintain some reasonable fraction of this amount of bandwidth. If the amount of cash that the telco dumped into this 10G marketing ploy were actually used to upgrade the backhaul all of the users would benefit more.
- wmf 17y agoI can't think of any use case for 10 Gbps to the home, so I admit this is a theoretical discussion. I also agree that backhaul is needed, but higher burst speeds don't hurt anything as long as they don't cost more.
- Retric 17y agoThis is a long way from nation wide adoption, but several places are rolling out 1GB connections in the next few years. Today when you give users 50MB+ connections they start using a tiny fraction of their total bandwidth. The real advantage to 1+GB links is the ability to grow the backbone as needed without caring about the last mile for a long time. Going the other way limits the adoption of services that need such high speed connections. And it's just fiber, they don't need to actually put 10GB equipment at both ends of every home, just run a cable which could in theory support those speeds.