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Originally Posted by grizy
Copper will stick around for a lot longer. They can already push 1gb/s over existing coaxial cables over pretty long distances and the technology is already commercially available. 10gbs over coaxial tech is pretty mature as well and it’s an issue of having commercial demand for it.
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Yea nice new copper cabling under optimal conditions.
copper that has been out in the wild doing **** knows what for 50 years not so much.
Your mileage is going to vary a lot.
Its not the fibre, its the switching at the local exchange as well, all has to be upgraded to push the extra bits, bottlenecks will have to be removed all over the network/cloud.
That is if you dont want plenty of people to not notice the difference in a meaningful way because the ISP cant push data fast enough to utilise the capacity of fibre.
Luckily the main arteries of our data network are pretty solid thanks to multiplexing, as said the main bottle necks are local exchange, last mile.