Personally I think it's pure marketing ... something I think we all know...
I seen a few years back a FTTH development get completed using GPON - everything in the area got "Full Gig Internet". Speedtest while I was onsite showed about 900Mb/s download so pretty darn close (before they fully deployed). The interesting part was that the development consisted of 4400 active users the last time I heard but the bandwidth to upstream provider was still only a single GigE and was not hitting serious saturation levels most of the time. Paul -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Rafael Possamai Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 2:39 PM To: Eric Dugas Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill. Similar to the concept of price elasticity in economics, going from 50mbps to 1gbps doesn't necessarily increase your average transfer rate, at least I don't think it would for me. Anyone care to comment? Just really curious, as to me it's more of a marketing push than anything else, even though gigabit to the home sounds really cool. On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Eric Dugas <edu...@zerofail.com> wrote: > Nice try Bell.. So-Net did it two years ago, 2Gbps FTTH in Japan. > > Article: http://bgr.com/2013/06/13/so-net-nuro-2gbps-fiber-service/ > > If you read Japanese: http://www.nuro.jp/hikari/ > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Hank Disuko > Sent: June 26, 2015 2:04 PM > To: NANOG > Subject: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland > > Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of > Toronto with the World's Fastest Internet™. > > http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-t > oronto-worlds-fastest-internet.html > > >
