Corydon
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Re: Gluttony?
Well there are other applications besides simple browsing that might be able to really take advantage of these kinds of speeds.
For instance, we are just starting to see web based email applications that approach the same kind of interface that you'd get with a mail client like Thunderbird. Part of that is new(ish) technologies like AJAX but part is also having the bandwidth available to deliver email messages (complete with graphics) in near-real time.
So I'd expect to see a lot more applications popping up on the web (OpenOffice for instance). That's something that's been talked about since the '90s, but 50 Mbps starts to make it viable. There are real advantages to not having your work tied to one particular computer after all.
Also, a 10 Mbps connection brings you to the sort of speeds you typically got with a LAN ten years ago. A 50 Mbps connection gets you a much of the way to the typical 100 Mbps LAN most people still have today. So there are all kinds of implications for network storage as well (assuming that these connections eventually become symmetrical).
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