Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• M137@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Chona”

  Hahah.

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Getting real tired of these „China is 30 years ahead of us“ clickbait headlines on an almost daily basis. They‘re always completely overblown and sadly really warp the public perception of the country and their government.

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• kalleboo@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Most residential fiber currently is GPON with a 2 Gbps shared line using passive optical splitters, split up to 32 ways. Raising that shared line to 50 Gbps is a great upgrade.

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• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m sure the hardware for 50Gbps optics wouldn’t be cheap for the consumer 🤣

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  • cybersin@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Enterprise adopted 100GbE networking around 2019. You can now buy used network cards for around $100 each.

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Probably not where I am, that seems really low. I mean it depends if you use name brand or not. Often I don’t use the name brand ones 🤣

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      • MorphiusFaydal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I just checked on eBay, and there are multiple listings for single port 100 GbE Mellanox (now nVidia) Connect-X 4 cards in the $60-100 range.

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  • will_a113@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The “innovation” in the article is passive tech for fiber to the room (FTTR), specifically made to be low cost and easier to implement. It’s also how your computer might get that 50Gbit - it’ll have to be wired in with a fiber connection. It’s not happening over WiFi (or even Ethernet)

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    • kalleboo@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      (or even Ethernet)

      Technically, those 100+ Gbps fiber LAN/WAN connections used in data centers are also Ethernet, just not twisted pair.

      That said recently I was in a retail store and saw “Cat8” cables for sale that advertised support for 40 Gbps copper ethernet! I wonder if any hardware to support that will ever be released. It is a real standard: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Gigabit_Ethernet#40GBAS…

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      • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Those cables are hard to terminate properly. There’s an outer grounding sheath that needs to be connected up at both ends. Except for short connections, I find it easier/cheaper to use fiber.

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Its not that out of this world, though it is currently completely unneccessary. 10gb+ has been somewhat common residentially for years.

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