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Originally Posted by Drakej
??? What connection exists that allows you to download a movie over a commercial break? Or are you talking about YouTube "movies" and it buffering in 30 seconds?
A connection speed this fast would allow us to move massive amounts of information very quickly. Sadly it will not see the light of day for many more years. We would have to do a complete re-design on our infrastructure. And hardware engineers are going to have to figure out how to make an interface for your machine to talk to this new "uber" pipe. This is sorta along the lines of quantum computing. It sounds great and they are getting some work done but we are a long ways off.
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Current Optical Carriers can have speeds of almost 40 Gbit/s (or downloading speeds of nearly 5 GB/s), of course these (due to prices) are mostly used by companies that need to hork together 10,000 computers for their employees. For a more individual level, you can get Fiber Optics that are over 50 Mbit/s and have downloading speeds of 6.25 MBps (download a 600 MB full movie in a little over a minute and a half).
However, Japan is well past double that speed in most areas.
Speed Matters: High-Speed Internet for All
"In Japan, fiber networks delivering 100 mbps already pass more than 70 percent of the homes in large parts of the country."