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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
TalkTalk have said they want to roll out in other CityFibre cities if York goes well.
That Aberdeen is a CityFibre city puts it along with the other 3 that aren't York in a very short list.
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Good point.
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May see some people selling 10Gb as part of a urinating contest but definitely not 1Tb. There's no prospect of seeing core network links running at 1Tb any time soon, it's not under real development yet.
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http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/work...-record-136689 
Yes, yes, I know. Multiple carriers, WDM, etc. is "cheating".
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To say how far 10Gb to the home is away the cheapest 10Gb switch I can find that doesn't need expensive pluggables is over £600. The cheapest router that can do 10Gb line rate... somewhat more 
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While that is true today, historically ethernet technologies have massively dropped in price as soon as they hit consumer-market scale production.
If Thunderbolt 3 takes off (40Gbit carrier, with mandatory 10GbE emulation layer) most home computers will have 10GbE capability built-in by 2020. The cost of the Alpine Ridge chips for that are estimated around $20 so that'll bring the cost right down.
Oh, and we have literally boxes of "expensive pluggables" here that were bought in error, just rotting away
Seems nobody bothered to check when ordering 24-port 10GbE switches whether they already had transceivers built in.