Japan and EU Commit 18m Euro To Develop 100Gbps Internet Access 69
Mark.JUK writes "The European Union and Japan have unveiled a joint investment of 18 million Euros that aims to build more efficient fibre optic broadband networks that are '5000 times faster than today's average European broadband ISP speed (100Gbps compared to 19.7Mbps).'
The funding will go towards supporting six research projects, which range from an effort to enable fibre optic networks at more than 100Gbps (aka – STRAUSS), to investigating new ways of ensuring efficient use of energy in information networks (aka — GreenICN).
Faster than 100Gbps fibre optic links already exist but the new research could potentially help to bring these closer to homes. Some ISPs already offer 1Gbps+ connections to home users; not so long ago everybody was still stuck on a 50Kbps dialup link or slower."
Re:Yay! (Score:3, Insightful)
More bandwidth to suck my pc dry of all information!
What they are forgetting is that they ISP must have 100Tbps links then... 100G is already out there. But it is used to aggregate lots of 20Mbps links. If you have 1000000 subscribers on 100G links, you will need at least 1000000G to provide them with access, assuming 1:10 overbooking.
Until something faster than SATA3.0 gets a marketshare, I think it is safe to assume that only a very very tiny percentage of customers will even break 6Gbit for any length of time. 1Gbit is probably more than plenty for a household for the next 10 years.
In 2003, 512mb of ram was common and the PATA133 spec could do 133MB/s (or about 1Gbit/s) in the ideal case. Now we have 8gb or 16gb of RAM being common and a 6Gbit/s disk interface. At 100Gbit, 1TB of data is transferred in about 90 seconds. In 2023, we might have computers with 256GB of ram and a disk interface that can do 36Gbit. 4k uncompressed video is only about 3.7Gbit. I have a hard time believing that even in 2027 (15 years), 100Gbit will be all that useful for the home user.