every home in south korea to have access to 1gbps by end of 2012

vibe666

yoinks! :eek:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/technology/22iht-broadband22.html?_r=1

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea already claims the world’s fastest Internet connections — the fastest globally by far — but that is hardly good enough for the government here.

Choi Gwang-gi is overseeing South Korea's plan to connect every home in the country to the Internet at one gigabit per second by the end of next year.
By the end of 2012, South Korea intends to connect every home in the country to the Internet at one gigabit per second. That would be a tenfold increase from the already blazing national standard and more than 200 times as fast as the average household setup in the United States.

i'm actually not sure if it's going to give everyone the option to connect to 1gbps, or if they're just going to roll it out to everyone regardless. it seems to suggest the latter, but it doesn't seem possible. although who knows with them, they're already way up there, speed wise.

Nody

vibe666 wrote: »

i'm actually not sure if it's going to give everyone the option to connect to 1gbps, or if they're just going to roll it out to everyone regardless. it seems to suggest the latter, but it doesn't seem possible. although who knows with them, they're already way up there, speed wise.

If they already run at least 100MB to everyone they need to have either fiber or high quality network cables or similar to provide it in the first place.

Turning it up one notch then would be hub side upgrades rather then in the houses.

vibe666

yes, but they'd still need a fcukton of bandwidth on the back end to support those speeds for their users. whatever way you slice it, it's a pretty awesome achievement.

and i'm pretty sure nobody in korea has even the slightest idea what a CAP, FUP or AUP is.