Hong Kong Telecoms announces 50 Gbps fibre broadband to homes and enterprises – OCWorkbench
Hong Kong Telecoms announces 50 Gbps fibre broadband to homes and enterprises – OCWorkbench
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Enterprises, sure.
Homes? Why? I can't even find a good use for a single gigabit download for personal use. Being able to download a new game in 3 minutes rather than 5 isn't something I'm willing to pay additional money every month to get. Remote desktops, video streaming, gaming, there's nothing uses that much bandwidth even in my household of 5 people.
Hong Kong is extremely small. Offering the service to both (and oversubscribing the hell out of 50G) is extremely simple, since a business might be anywhere including close to consumers, so you're building the infra regardless.
I don't think it makes sense for most people to pay for this, but in 1998 you would have said "we will never need more than aDSL for the consumer" yet here we are with 1G/ 5G links to the home that are getting actually saturated.
You should set up Radarr/Sonarr w/Usenet, that'll saturate your connection lmao, while you're setting that up throw up a Plex/Jellyfin server to lol
Ok sure, but at that point consumer hardware will not be able to do that. Try finding a consumer router capable of more than 2.5gbit, let alone more than 10.
It's always a "chicken or the egg" situation. Right now, there isn't much need for a home router with anything faster than a 1Gbps port. In the prosumer space 10Gbps is available, but it's not super cheap (about $300 with SFP module). But, if something like 50Gbps becomes common, manufacturers will be incentivized to make products for it. The economies of scale and the effects of competition will kick in and prices will come down.
I'm old. I was at one of the events where Intel announced 1Gbps over copper. This was supposed to be impossible, there was no way to push 1Gbps over Cat-5 cables. But, with Cat-5e and Cat-6, they had cracked it. At the time, there was no way this was ever going to be a cheap technology and it was intended for large enterprises for major switch interconnect runs. Now it's everywhere.
Maybe 50Gbps to the home won't happen. And this is just some exec blowing smoke. But, maybe they'll do it and kick off the market for cheaper equipment in that class. While I do agree that we're lacking the "killer app" to make that much bandwidth to the home necessary. Things like music and video streaming came about after the advent of faster speeds. It wasn't until we had DSL that people realized that streaming music, in real time, would be a thing. We needed the bandwidth to be there for the use cases to be discovered.
There are a few router with 10gbps ports on the market, like asus gt-be98 pro. They don't actually run 10gbps since the processors can't keep up, but they do run well above 2.5gbps.
Ain't this the truth.