Omega Owners Forum

Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: megaomega123 on 18 July 2007, 14:31:56

Title: WOW 40Gbps broadband
Post by: megaomega123 on 18 July 2007, 14:31:56

Now that is fast. How long will it take for consumers to get this sort of speed?

http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/75-year-old-woman-has-fastest-broadband?articleid=1857379299

Title: Re: WOW 40Gbps broadband
Post by: STMO123 on 18 July 2007, 14:42:47

She must actually live IN the exchange :y

Title: Re: WOW 40Gbps broadband
Post by: Jimbob on 18 July 2007, 14:51:33

mmmmmmm

Imagine it in the uk, 40Gbps, with a 2 gig per month cap!

Title: Re: WOW 40Gbps broadband
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 18 July 2007, 14:54:32

Quote

She must actually live IN the exchange :y

Nope, we have been demoing faster speeds than that over thousands of K'ms of fibre to some customers.....

Title: Re: WOW 40Gbps broadband
Post by: Danny on 18 July 2007, 16:44:36

in japan, those broadband speeds are practically the norm!

Title: Re: WOW 40Gbps broadband
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 18 July 2007, 16:46:46

40Gb isnt the norm, that requires a 10K+ Line card plus one hell of a lot of bandwidth through the network......40Mb is not so unusual in some places....

Title: Re: WOW 40Gbps broadband
Post by: TheBoy on 18 July 2007, 18:56:08

Yes, remember that even if you were ever to get the infrastructure to the premises (only really possibly now with new developments, using fibre), you would never get those sort of throughputs.

Someone has to carry that amount of bandwidth from your exchange to your ISP, and your ISP has to have that level of connectivity.

Consider your average ISP, say 200,000 users. Most have 2 - 4 1Gbps links to the internet.  Even the Internet backbones could be saturated by a couple of users with that sort of connectivity.