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Richard M 16-03-2005 19:13
1Gbps Broadband!
 
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HONG KONG, February 2, 2004 - Cisco Systems announced that Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited ("HKBN"), a leading fixed-telecommunications network service ("FTNS") provider in Hong Kong, has launched 100Mbps broadband service based on Cisco® Metro Ethernet Internet Protocol (IP) and optical network solution. This is the first enterprise-class broadband access service for the mass residential market in Hong Kong. HKBN also plans to deploy the world's fastest residential 1Gbps (1000Mbps) service by June 2005, building on the existing Cisco IP infrastructure.
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/globa...ml?CMP=ILC-001
:Yikes: :disturbd: :eek: :cool: :tu:

I want... :drool:

Graham M 16-03-2005 19:14
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
:drool:

Derek 16-03-2005 19:21
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But is it capped? :dunce:

(i'll leave now)

paulyoung666 16-03-2005 19:43
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
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Originally Posted by dezzo
But is it capped? :dunce:

(i'll leave now)


probably a good idea :D :D , god knows how much that would cost :Yikes: :Yikes:

punky 16-03-2005 20:03
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
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Originally Posted by paulyoung666
probably a good idea :D :D , god knows how much that would cost :Yikes: :Yikes:
At about 137 meg/second it would take you less than 10 seconds :) But think of all that porn, that wonderful, wonderful porn... :naughty:

cookie_365 16-03-2005 20:30
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Will they have a bottom-tier 300 Mbs service, you know, for people who just want to surf a bit, send a few emails, that kind of thing .... :D

Hom3r 16-03-2005 20:39
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I read some were that Hong Kong people pay about £20 per month for 27Mb service (1Gb = £740 approx per month:Yikes: :Yikes: )

kronas 16-03-2005 20:42
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Fiber-to-the-building (FTTB) was deployed between the buildings using the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) and Cisco Catalyst 4507R Switches. The HKBN's optical backbone can support up to 64,000 Gbps.
:drool:

i guess we will be seeing it here soon :rolleyes:

Stuart 16-03-2005 20:46
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard M
Quote:
HONG KONG, February 2, 2004 - Cisco Systems announced that Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited ("HKBN"), a leading fixed-telecommunications network service ("FTNS") provider in Hong Kong, has launched 100Mbps broadband service based on Cisco® Metro Ethernet Internet Protocol (IP) and optical network solution. This is the first enterprise-class broadband access service for the mass residential market in Hong Kong. HKBN also plans to deploy the world's fastest residential 1Gbps (1000Mbps) service by June 2005, building on the existing Cisco IP infrastructure.
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/globa...ml?CMP=ILC-001
:Yikes: :disturbd: :eek: :cool: :tu:

I want... :drool:

We'll probably get it in around 2030. Microsoft will release Service Pack 2 for Windows 2030, and it'll still take an age to download as the service pack will be 1 terabyte (about 1024 Gigabytes)..

:D

Hom3r 16-03-2005 20:47
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64,000 Gb connection = 8Gbps download thats a lot of MP3's Porn:disturbd: x £740 = £47,360 ,000,000,000 per month :Yikes: double:Yikes: :Yikes:

Halcyon 16-03-2005 20:58
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Where do I sign up ?

I want !!!

AndrewJ 16-03-2005 21:01
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
And we get it and ntl stick a 1gb per day cap, and 40gb per month cap.

Maggy 16-03-2005 21:11
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Originally Posted by AndrewJames
And we get it and ntl stick a 1gb per day cap, and 40gb per month cap.
Are you still here?I thought you were being moved.... :erm:

Tricky 16-03-2005 22:23
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
You'd need a bigger harddrive thats a definate!

Richard M 16-03-2005 22:44
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
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Originally Posted by david.ewles
I read some were that Hong Kong people pay about £20 per month for 27Mb service
I have a 1Mb DSL service for £39 - I'm sure something's wrong somewhere... :dozey:

Paul 16-03-2005 23:00
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What is the point in a 27Mb service, a 1Gb service, or even a 10Mb service - people seem to forget that just because you have a link capable of these speeds you will rarely (if ever) actually get such speeds from the general internet - (unless you are downloading from your next door neighbours).

Ramrod 16-03-2005 23:07
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard M
I have a 1Mb DSL service for £39 - I'm sure something's wrong somewhere... :dozey:
Yep......population density, bb uptake, and infrastructure :D

Richard M 16-03-2005 23:13
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul M
What is the point in a 27Mb service, a 1Gb service, or even a 10Mb service - people seem to forget that just because you have a link capable of these speeds you will rarely (if ever) actually get such speeds from the general internet - (unless you are downloading from your next door neighbours).
The point is that you can do whatever you want whenever you want!
Imagine being able to stream a 128kbit radio station while downloading 10 different torrents at up to 10MBit each as well as hosting a 40 player game server on the same machine!

Paul 16-03-2005 23:22
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard M
The point is that you can do whatever you want whenever you want!
Imagine being able to stream a 128kbit radio station while downloading 10 different torrents at up to 10MBit each as well as hosting a 40 player game server on the same machine!
The point is you won't be able to do that. Only the local link to your house would be that speed - not everything beyond (many servers are only on 10mbit connections, many pipes into whole data centres are only 100mbit (or 155mbit)), this and all the interconnecting infrastructure could never sustain more than a few such high speed connections.

punky 16-03-2005 23:25
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul M
What is the point in a 27Mb service, a 1Gb service, or even a 10Mb service - people seem to forget that just because you have a link capable of these speeds you will rarely (if ever) actually get such speeds from the general internet - (unless you are downloading from your next door neighbours).
I guessed it was for busy, high end servers anyway. It didn't say downstream, it just said throughput, generically. I think they can split it how they want.

Richard M 16-03-2005 23:29
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
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Originally Posted by Paul M
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard M
The point is that you can do whatever you want whenever you want!
Imagine being able to stream a 128kbit radio station while downloading 10 different torrents at up to 10MBit each as well as hosting a 40 player game server on the same machine!
The point is you won't be able to do that. Only the local link to your house would be that speed - not everything beyond (many servers are only on 10mbit connections, many pipes into whole data centres are only 100mbit (or 155mbit)), this and all the interconnecting infrastructure could never sustain more than a few such high speed connections.
What I'm getting at is that you'd be downloading from multiple locations at their max speed.
OK, so a typical webserver will put out 10MBit, but if you have 100MBit you could download from 8 or 9 different servers at full speed.

Paul 17-03-2005 00:12
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard M
What I'm getting at is that you'd be downloading from multiple locations at their max speed.
OK, so a typical webserver will put out 10MBit, but if you have 100MBit you could download from 8 or 9 different servers at full speed.
A nice thought - but at the present time, you are very unlikely to get such high speed links to most servers in the first place, especially ones outside of the uk, or in smaller datacentres - and even if you managed it, if any other people connected and started downloading, the speed would start to fall, or even nose dive.

Gareth 17-03-2005 00:30
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Using your logic, Paul, maybe we should all ditch broadband and go back to 9600 baud dial-up modems?

I see it as progress. It has to start somewhere, and eventually it will spread elsewhere. Admittedly, it's not always much use being an early adopter, but someone has to do it. ;)

Mattitude 17-03-2005 01:34
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[:drool::drool::drool:]Me want...[/:drool::drool::drool:]

Matthew 17-03-2005 07:33
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I want it! Well anything has got to be better than 56k!

Stuart 17-03-2005 09:31
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gareth
Using your logic, Paul, maybe we should all ditch broadband and go back to 9600 baud dial-up modems?

I see it as progress. It has to start somewhere, and eventually it will spread elsewhere. Admittedly, it's not always much use being an early adopter, but someone has to do it. ;)
I think Paul's point is that if you are on a link faster than a couple of megabytes, you really don't see faster downloads from it. Even where a site is on a fast link. they may limit the bandwidth to individual users.

TBH, I think he is right. At work, I am on a link that is extremely fast, and most of the time, I really don't notice the difference between than and the 1.5 Meg link at home.

Not sure how the faster link would affect P2P and bittorrent as I cannot use these at work (they are banned, and blocked at the firewall), but in my experience, the limiting factor for speed on those appears to be at the server end (by server, I mean the machine serving the file you are downloading).

Paul 17-03-2005 09:35
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
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Originally Posted by Gareth
Using your logic, Paul, maybe we should all ditch broadband and go back to 9600 baud dial-up modems?
If you say so :erm:

philip.j.fry 17-03-2005 11:33
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard M
The point is that you can do whatever you want whenever you want!
Imagine being able to stream a 128kbit radio station while downloading 10 different torrents at up to 10MBit each as well as hosting a 40 player game server on the same machine!
On the other hand most pc's wouldn't be able to cope with that much intensive stuff running on it.

OinkyBoinky 17-03-2005 12:03
Re: 1Gbps Broadband!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard M
What I'm getting at is that you'd be downloading from multiple locations at their max speed.
OK, so a typical webserver will put out 10MBit, but if you have 100MBit you could download from 8 or 9 different servers at full speed.
And another thing... surely if speeds availible to the end user are starting to get faster and faster, then surely the pipes that the servers are on will have to be increased too... i know thats easier said than done, but surely thats just a logical step... imagine... one day.. ever one at home has this 1gbps broadband at home.. and all the servers are on 1tbps pipes....

Gareth 17-03-2005 14:16
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Yep, Oinky - my point exactly. Without forward thinkers, like those looking at implementing this kind of speed now because they can, we'd all be sitting around a camp fire watching black and white telly by candle light!

jrhnewark 23-03-2005 06:37
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At the end of the day, everybody who uses the net 'properly' (e.g. makes use of the technology available), would be able to use a 100mbps pipe.

I mean - HDTV - 19mbps!! Nobody in this country has that, let alone with space to keep BitTorrents running at the same time! :)


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