We all knew this would happen someday. Maybe it isn't quite available the whole world yet, but Korea is certainly getting there. What am I talking about? High speed fiber to your house at 1 Gbps and beyond. They have also varied the frame length so they can fit 512 users on a single line instead of the previous 16. Sure, we've heard it all before, but now that it may be a commercial possibility
because of new technology, we will begin to push the limits once again of what is possible. This mega-bandwidth will change the world in ways we never thought possible. For one thing doctors will be able to perform operations from remote distances. There are many applications of the technology in the commercial sector, not to mention for consumers. What would you do with 1 Gbps of throughput at your disposal?
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Subscribe to commentsmroonieSep 13th 2006 3:45PM
Way to go Korea! That's my homeland....
nalgaeSep 13th 2006 4:03PM
Now that you mention it, my DSL from Verizon has always been kind of funny.
J5892Sep 13th 2006 4:42PM
Well, too bad the RIAA, MPAA, and any other Associations of America who hate to allow the citizens of America to enjoy themselves, will be lobbying to keep this technology out of the US in order to prevent the rampant increase in file-sharing that it will allow.
I just hope our government is intelligent enough to look past these people and let us move forward technologically.
MarcoSep 13th 2006 4:27PM
It's funny how the richest and most advance industrial country in the world has to eat the dust of countries like Korea and soon China.
What does capitalism do? Screws the Republic.
resourceSep 13th 2006 7:46PM
HD Porn.
I'm there.
Seriously, Ultra broadband has real possibilities for telecommuting and true video conferencing.
My 15 Mbs from Optimum is great.
I cant imagine 1000Mbs.
Geez.
DonkeySep 14th 2006 12:49PM
--Mad rambling--
#3 Sooooo, USA is the richest country in the world? *sigh*
http://www.aneki.com/richest.html
"In the United States as a whole, the richest 1 percent now earn more per year than the bottom 40 percent combined. In California, the richest 1 percent now earn more per year than the bottom 60 percent."
This is not true for Norway.
Almost anyone in Sweden can get 24 Mb/1 Mb for about 30 dollars a month. And then you have to consider that in the capital, the stuff costs about the same as in New York (which is quite expensive).
--Mad rambling--
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0511/
It seems Korea will stay as the most advanced country in the world.
DavidSep 15th 2006 6:46PM
"Mega-bandwidth"?
Don't you mean "Giga-bandwidth"?
Captain MurphySep 15th 2006 6:46PM
Don't you mean "Bizaro-Bandwidth"?
Knight17Sep 16th 2006 5:58PM
That is a really a good news that gives you some hope,IMO most of you guys are really lucky, I am still on my dial up.Does consumers need such a high speed connections now a days, NO is the answer if you ask me ?
HD Porn:Where I haven't seen anything on even in the warez sites(Yes they are really ahead of legal sources just go to a "good" warez site and check the version of your favorite application in a legal source (download.com)you will understand what I said...download.com takes more than a month to update)
With such a high speed connection you can host all of your friends web logs on your own computer the only criteria is that you must turn your computer always on if you need a high "up-time".
However advancement in technology is really great,I am hoping to see me surfing at 1 GBPS within next 7-8 years...Is that a dream may be..but sure consumers will get access to such high speed connections with that time.