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posted by Fnord666 on Friday March 23 2018, @03:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the faster-starcraft-matches dept.

S. Korea pushes to commercialize 10-gigabit Internet service

South Korea is pushing to commercialize 10-gigabit (Gb) transfer speeds for its online network systems, which is 10 times faster than [gigabit] Internet, the fastest broadband service currently available, the ICT ministry said Sunday.

The Ministry of Science and ICT said it will work closely with local IT firms to adopt 10 Gb service, considered the core technology behind fifth-generation wireless technology as well as virtual reality and augmented reality.

[...] Asia's fourth-largest economy and one of the most connected countries in the world is aiming for 50-percent coverage of 10 Gb Internet by 2022.

"Coverage" means availability. Singapore and South Korea currently lead in 1 Gbps availability (although the U.S. leads in the total number of people who could get a 1 Gbps connection):

The United States has the highest number of people with access to gigabit internet (56.4 million) with a population coverage of 17 percent. Singapore currently has the highest proportion of citizens with gigabit internet availability at 95 percent. South Korea has the second highest number of citizens with gigabit internet availability (46.7 million), representing 93 percent of its population.

Of the current gigabit installations tracked by Gigabit Monitor, unsurprisingly, 91 percent are based on fiber – with cellular connections accounting for 3.65 percent, HFC accounting for 5.26 percent, and WiFi making up less than 1 percent. However, with many launches of gigabit LTE and 5G expected in the near future, the scale of cellular gigabit connectivity is expected to change significantly.

Also at NBF.


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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday March 23 2018, @03:35PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Friday March 23 2018, @03:35PM (#657148) Journal

    Currently, video is the biggest user of storage and networking resources, and with a 10Gpbs link, could download a hi def 2 hour movie in 10 seconds. If your computer can handle it. Before 2013, the fastest SATA interface was only 6Gbps.

    So, yes, have multiple devices using the connection. Could a download of a torrent be spread across several computers? At least two computers cooperating to download a single torrent? Doesn't seem a particularly useful idea, but it might be fun to do.

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