I suggest we stop talking about throughput, which has been the mistaken idea 
about networking for 30-40 years.
 
Almost all networking ends up being about end-to-end response time in a 
multiplexed system.
 
Or put another way: "It's the Latency, Stupid".
 
I get (and have come to expect) 27 msec. RTT's under significant load, from 
Boston suburb to Sunnyvale, CA.
 
I get 2 microsecond RTT's within my house (using 10 GigE).
 
What will we expect tomorrow?
 
This is related to Bufferbloat, because queueing delay is just not a good thing 
in these contexts - contexts where Latency Matters. We provision multiplexed 
networks based on "peak capacity" never being reached.
 
Consequently, 1 Gig to the home is "table stakes". And in DOCSIS 3.1 
deployments that is what is being delivered, cheap, today.
 
And 10 Gig within the home is becoming "table stakes", especially for 
applications that need quick response to human interaction.
 
1 NvME drive already delivers around 11 Gb/sec at its interface. That's what is 
needed in the network to "impedance match".
 
802.11ax already gives around 10 Gb/sec. wireless (and will be on the market 
soon).
 
The folks who think that having 1 Gb/sec to the home would only be important if 
you had to transfer at that rate 8 hours a day are just not thinking clearly 
about what "responsiveness" means.
 
For a different angle on this, think about what the desirable "channel change 
time" is if a company like Netflix were covering all the football (I mean US's 
soccer) games in the world. You'd like to fill the "buffer" in 100 msec. so 
channel change to some new channel is responsive. 100 msec. of 4K sports, which 
you are watching in "real time" needs to be buffered, and you want no more than 
a second or two of delay from camera to your screen. So buffering up 1 second 
of a newly selected 4 K video stream in 100 msec. on demand is why you need 
such speeds. Do the math.
 
VR sports coverage - even moreso.
 
 


On Monday, December 4, 2017 7:44am, "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swm...@swm.pp.se> 
said:



> On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, Pedro Tumusok wrote:
> 
> > Looking at chipsets coming/just arrived from the chipset vendors, I think
> > we will see CPE with 10G SFP+ and 802.11ax Q3/Q4 this year.
> > Price is of course a bit steeper than the 15USD USB DSL modem :P, but
> > probably fits nicely for the SMB segment.
> 
> https://kb.netgear.com/31408/What-SFP-modules-are-compatible-with-my-Nighthawk-X10-R9000-router
> 
> This has been available for a while now. Only use-case I see for it is
> Comcast 2 gigabit/s service, that's the only one I know of that would fit
> this product (since it has no downlink 10GE ports).
> 
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