Yo Rob! Glad you added your statistics but my desirable drool was directed at the speed of what you could potential do with that download rate.
Wouldn't give a toss that I had 44 HD films to watch lol
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Yo Rob! Glad you added your statistics but my desirable drool was directed at the speed of what you could potential do with that download rate.
Wouldn't give a toss that I had 44 HD films to watch lol
So they were stress testing part of their infrastructure
I wouldn't get your hopes up about seeing this anytime soon for BT wholesale services for a long time.
Think of it like mobile phone releases, sure you could the "perfect" phone, right here right now,or you could squeeze the market for a while, then up the product or service, squeeze that for a while, up it again.
Anyone who wants high end services at the most will either be the select few that get hyperoptic but again very limited in terms of location, again slightly OTT for home use in its current state. Or other services supplying small, medium or large businesses, WAN infrastructure ala resilient Colo feeds between data centres or several dcs, but even those will be on a dedicated link
Unless you are one of those or are managing a tenanted building of some sort
Good too see the potential of what it can achieve though, and quite interested to read about this laser technology
I wouldn't get your hopes up about seeing this anytime soon for BT wholesale services for a long time.
Think of it like mobile phone releases, sure you could the "perfect" phone, right here right now,or you could squeeze the market for a while, then up the product or service, squeeze that for a while, up it again.
Anyone who wants high end services at the most will either be the select few that get hyperoptic but again very limited in terms of location, again slightly OTT for home use in its current state. Or other services supplying small, medium or large businesses, WAN infrastructure ala resilient Colo feeds between data centres or several dcs, but even those will be on a dedicated link
Unless you are one of those or are managing a tenanted building of some sort
Good too see the potential of what it can achieve though, and quite interested to read about this laser technology
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Why not. I'd rather by slowed down by the server speed than my connection.
I wonder if we'll ever get to a point where you just get 'internet'. None of this bandwidth and speed rubbish, just internet that's instant and always. A bit like TV (yes I know TV is 100% different but you get the idea I'm sure
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How much do you reckon 4k and 8k TV will eventually need for live streaming, plus all the other background gubbins that will be expected to automatically enter the home.
I am sure this speed will be standard within my lifetime, less than twenty years ago, speeds of 14400 were max, then 28800 and 56000, now we're at 80000000/120000000, within the home, 1400000000000 doesn't seem that much of a step.
This has got nothing to do with home broadband.
Loads of people seem to be thinking that for some reason. This technology wont see any affect on the speed of your home broadband connections.
In the distant future homes will have these speeds so it's all research towards reaching that level imo.
I remember playing an online browser game where refreshing was a major part of the game, people on high speed had huge advantages, at my dad's office I could do really well at it on 128k isdn compared to my usual 56k... now I play it and get DDOS warnings because it refreshes too quickly! This was only in 2001...yet our American friends already had 3mbit at that time.
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According to Netflix 4k is munching 15-20Mb/s with bursts up to 50Mb/s.
Quadruple that for an upcoming 8k stream.
It should be mentioned that the current 80Mb and 120Mb services we have here are using the same copper / coaxial cables that came into homes when ADSL and 600kb cable were around, fibre has been moved closer, from exchange to cabinet and to cabinets closer to customers respectively.
Moving to gigabit speeds on copper requires fibre to the distribution point in the case of a copper telco network, these DPs are usually on the top of a pole, the side of a house in a terrace row, or in a pit under the pavement serving each group of homes.
Moving to gigabit on a cable network is, on the downstream, easier, however the upstream path is more problematic. A ton of upgrades would be needed in the field both to fibre optic nodes and replacement either of full amplifiers or of diplex filters in amplifiers. To make this work properly a fibre deep architecture would be desirable.
Quadruple that for an upcoming 8k stream.
It should be mentioned that the current 80Mb and 120Mb services we have here are using the same copper / coaxial cables that came into homes when ADSL and 600kb cable were around, fibre has been moved closer, from exchange to cabinet and to cabinets closer to customers respectively.
Moving to gigabit speeds on copper requires fibre to the distribution point in the case of a copper telco network, these DPs are usually on the top of a pole, the side of a house in a terrace row, or in a pit under the pavement serving each group of homes.
Moving to gigabit on a cable network is, on the downstream, easier, however the upstream path is more problematic. A ton of upgrades would be needed in the field both to fibre optic nodes and replacement either of full amplifiers or of diplex filters in amplifiers. To make this work properly a fibre deep architecture would be desirable.