cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/54702508
That’s “useful” when you can effectively only use it for Baidu, rednote, TikTok (the local version that’s isolated from the rest of the world) and WeChat
China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds
Submitted 2 weeks ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to technology@beehaw.org
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Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
thejml@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
It’s easier to roll out if no one can saturate it!
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
The Chinese gaming market is gigantic though and their 500 million gamers certainly need good internet.
jarfil@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
The current maximum speed per single-mode single-core fiber (aka, the typical FTTH ones), is on the order of 400,000,000Mbps, or 400,000Mbps per channel. Not much leapfrogging there.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
This is generally referred to as 50Gpbs. It’s impressive, but there’s no need to use inappropriate scales.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
50,000,000,000 baud communication!