UK report on global high speed communication plans. Japan has 2.5 gbps to the home in the works.
End to end IP Communication speed records started 2006 at about 8 Gbps.
The latest transmission record is 100 gigabit ethernet over 4000 km of fiber by Infinera. Unlike Infinera’s demonstration, NTT’s 14 tbit/s transmission was accomplished over a single 100-mile-long fiber optic line. NTT’s backbone consists primarily of 1Tbps fiber; most US IP backbones consist of multiple 10Gbps links.
100 tbit/s routers planned since 2004
14 terabits per second over a single optical fiber is the record so far in 2006.
Currently in the USA the fastest communication services are:
Verizon Communications currently offers three tiers in its Fios service: 5Mbps (megabits per second) downstream/2Mbps upstream for $34.95 per month; 15Mbps/2Mbps for $44.95; and 30 Mbps/5mbps for $179.95. It is available to a total of 6 million premises by year-end 2006 (18% of the Verizon network of 33 million), with an additional 3 million a year planned through 2010.
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator, doubled download speeds of its fastest broadband service in four cities to 16Mbps for downloads and 1Mbps for uploads at a cost of $52.95 per month.
Cablevision, which also competes with Verizon, offers consumers two tiers of service: 15Mbps/1Mbps for $49.95 or 30Mbps/2Mbps for $64.95. The cable television operations serve more than 3 million households in the New York metropolitan area.
Fast wireless communication is coming via wimax and some new cellphone standards. The wireless record demo is about 2.5 gbps.
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