times.hankooki.com— South Korea, the world's most wired nation, continues to push the envelope on the speed of the broadband Internet and looks set to make 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) a commercial possibility.
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Right, this also makes things difficult when this type of fiber optic internet only allows about 512 users per strand / splice. South Korea has extremely high population densities, so that could make this 1 GB internet impossible to distribute amongst the dense cities.
Internet 2 (not to be confused with Web 2) runs at 6 gigabits per secondbetween 200 universities and 50 companies. Its a prototype for eventalcommercialization.
1Gbps FTTH has been available in Japan for a long time now. TEPCO is probably the best out of them all, although it is only available in the Kanto region, including Tokyo. Even our national telecommunications company, NTT has had 1Gbps DSL lines available nationwide. The cost for these lines are between 5,000 to 7,000Yen.
That's another thing that is limiting speeds to/from Korea and elsewhere. If anyone has ever seen a backbone map like the one Verio all lines pass through the United States, so as long as we're the slow ones we're the standard (though not necessarily the 'last mile' standard) Do a ping from a PC in Africa to one in China, it could the 'short' way, but there are no (or nearly none) that cross areas of Western Asia/Northern Africa and so the traffic has to go the 'long way' round the globe through the US to get it.<a class="user" href="http://www.kathy-griffin.info/griffin-kathy-lee/">http://www.kathy-griffin.info/griffin-kathy-lee/</a>
ryanmetcalfSep 12, 2006
"mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm................tubes"-Ted Stevens
thewaxgridSep 12, 2006
Right, this also makes things difficult when this type of fiber optic internet only allows about 512 users per strand / splice. South Korea has extremely high population densities, so that could make this 1 GB internet impossible to distribute amongst the dense cities.
contrlkaosSep 12, 2006
Hard to believe, but we already have this in the states in a few locations. Check out www.paxio.com. Their subscribers are primarily in the Silicon Valley area...$395 gets you symmetric gig...<a class="user" href="http://paxio.com/home.php?link=Internet">http://paxio.com/home.php?link=Internet</a>
poipoipoiSep 12, 2006
if there's a RIAK or MPAK, they just jumped out of their 100th-floor windows. :)
contrlkaosSep 12, 2006
If you don't want to spend that much, they have symmetric 10mbps for $48.50... SWEET!!I wish these guys were in Southern Cal!!
peter303Sep 12, 2006
Internet 2 (not to be confused with Web 2) runs at 6 gigabits per secondbetween 200 universities and 50 companies. Its a prototype for eventalcommercialization.
hrf1Sep 13, 2006
1Gbps FTTH has been available in Japan for a long time now. TEPCO is probably the best out of them all, although it is only available in the Kanto region, including Tokyo. Even our national telecommunications company, NTT has had 1Gbps DSL lines available nationwide. The cost for these lines are between 5,000 to 7,000Yen.
koorlle44erNov 6, 2006
That's another thing that is limiting speeds to/from Korea and elsewhere. If anyone has ever seen a backbone map like the one Verio all lines pass through the United States, so as long as we're the slow ones we're the standard (though not necessarily the 'last mile' standard) Do a ping from a PC in Africa to one in China, it could the 'short' way, but there are no (or nearly none) that cross areas of Western Asia/Northern Africa and so the traffic has to go the 'long way' round the globe through the US to get it.<a class="user" href="http://www.kathy-griffin.info/griffin-kathy-lee/">http://www.kathy-griffin.info/griffin-kathy-lee/</a>