Ciena sells a lot of spendy 40Gb optical link gear, it's particularly in demand
for undersea cable work, where changing the physical plant is basically
NOT an option.  I'm sure 100Gb is under active development.  Terrestrially,
you just run more 10Gb lines in parallel and use link aggregation.

> That's about 100MB (megabytes) per second. It seems unlikely that the ISP
> could actually support that for thousands of subscribers. 

To whom are 'you' talking that fast?  The ISP is just the man in the middle,
they count on the net aggregate being something they can handle, that the
two endpoints, collectively, don't/can't saturate the fabric too much of the 
time.
Of course, staying ahead of that curve IS their business.

-- Jim


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