more on gigabit to the home in Japan Re: Hong Kong Broadband Launches 1 Gbps Home Service for US$215/month

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Rod Van Meter <rdv () tera ics keio ac jp>
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:21:28 +0900
To: <dave () farber net>
Cc: Ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: gigabit to the home in Japan Re: [IP] Hong Kong Broadband Launches
1 Gbps Home Service for US$215/month

The Hong Kong news is interesting.

As another data point, NTT has been pushing the "hyper family type"
fiber to the home since last November.  In big print the ads talk about
1 gigabit per second (it's apparently GE-PON (gigabit ethernet-passive
optical network), but in small print they tell you that you get 100Mbps.
It's 1Gbps shared among a maximum of 32 households, with each individual
one capped at 100Mbps in each direction (some news stories said 155, but
most say 100; sounds like an ethernet switch to me).

Price?  4,700 yen/month ($45), installation is 28,000 yen, but various
deals will reduce the installation cost and get you a couple of months
for free.  (This is without the IP service, I believe.)

Part of what's interesting about this is that the providers are now
essentially starting to compete on the performance of the second hop.
Soon they'll be advertising their aggregate backbone performance.

(I'm unclear on whether your agreement with either your ISP or NTT
prevents you from running a server, but since in practice they seem to
be NATing, that gets difficult without either a tunnel or IPv6 (which,
of course, you can get as a commercial service here).)

  --Rod



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