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Re: Customers, not just investors have problems with higher cost It is my understanding that MOST of the equipment used on older FiOS installs is still BPON (I know mine is from 2007) which can not handle 100Mbit to all users, with newer deployments using GPON they could do 100Mbit but there still limited by bandwidth at the central office which is usually just a couple of 1 gigabit lines. At this point there really is not many sites out there that can even handle 25Mbit except for large company's (MS, Apple etc...) so what is there incentive to push higher speeds when there going to have to upgrade all the hardware at each end of the fiber to do it costing millions. It makes since to just keep up with cable until they start pushing 1080p over IP which will take a lot more bandwidth and they will be forced to upgrade. |
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| said by flashcore:. At this point there really is not many sites out there that can even handle 25Mbit except for large company's (MS, Apple etc...) That's not true. Any sites using one of the large CDNs (Akamai, Level3 etc) can serve high speed traffic. They are also peered very close to you, either in your ISP or peered with one of your ISP's backbone providers so there are not a lot of hops to go through.
Google also peers with a lot of ISPs. This means that you have a relatively short path to YouTube as well. |
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