RE: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

["Paul Stewart" <paul () paulstewart org>]

Personally I think it's pure marketing ... something I think we all know...

I seen a few years back a FTTH development get completed using GPON - everything in the area got "Full Gig Internet".  
Speedtest while I was onsite showed about 900Mb/s download so pretty darn close (before they fully deployed).

The interesting part was that the development consisted of 4400 active users the last time I heard but the bandwidth to 
upstream provider was still only a single GigE and was not hitting serious saturation levels most of the time.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Rafael Possamai
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 2:39 PM
To: Eric Dugas
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill. Similar to the concept of 
price elasticity in economics, going from 50mbps to 1gbps doesn't necessarily increase your average transfer rate, at 
least I don't think it would for me. Anyone care to comment? Just really curious, as to me it's more of a marketing 
push than anything else, even though gigabit to the home sounds really cool.



On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Eric Dugas <EDugas () zerofail com> wrote:

> Nice try Bell.. So-Net did it two years ago, 2Gbps FTTH in Japan.
>
> Article: http://bgr.com/2013/06/13/so-net-nuro-2gbps-fiber-service/
>
> If you read Japanese: http://www.nuro.jp/hikari/
>
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Hank Disuko
> Sent: June 26, 2015 2:04 PM
> To: NANOG
> Subject: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland
>
> Bell Canada is apparently gearing up to provide the good people of 
> Toronto with the World's Fastest Internet™.
>
> http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/06/25/bell-canada-to-give-t
> oronto-worlds-fastest-internet.html