Computer world recently published an article about some MIT researchers promising internet 100x faster and cheaper. This always SOUNDS good when such promises are tossed around but it seems a little short-sited overall. Generally a drastic change like this will cost a LOT of money re-outfitting all the NOCs, colos and other internet hubs with new routers and hardlines. I imagine the end user will end up paying for it one way or the other. Sensational promises remind me of things like memjet and transmeta that never quite seemed to live up to the hype … (Still waiting on memjet)
This article says nothing about is getting fiber to the curb though. Oddly, Verizon just laid a bunch of fios lines in my neighborhood and then sold them all off to Frontier less than 2 years after they did it. This is just after Google announced they were going to bring 1gbps fiber to some lucky towns as testbeds with their Google fiber for communities project.
These are confusing times for making a decision on an ISP. I’m sticking with Speakeasy for now.
