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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54702508

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[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 27 points 6 months ago (12 children)

There's a bunch of places in the US that has 10 Gbps speed, so this jump to 50 Gbps is not too shocking. Writing it as 50,000 Mbps to make it seem huge is an interesting take.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Worse than that, from the article:

The 50G-PON ITU-T standard supports theoretical speeds of up to 50 Gbps downstream and up to 25 Gbps upstream, though current real-world deployments in China - led by China Telecom, its regional branch Shanghai Telecom, and ZTE - typically provide 10 Gbps all-optical access.

So the 50G number is just theoretical and actual real world speed is only 10G. Due to regulations in the US, advertisements would need to advertise the real speeds. So this is really just the same as 10Gbps anywhere else.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Yep, which makes alarmist articles like this ridiculous.

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