[_mulder_]

This is not new. Existing Carriers have been offering 100GbE services for some time although the type of customer who requires this type of service is few and far between.

As for 10GbE for residential, if this is literally 10G to the home then that is something new (as a product offering, technology is not new). Interesting to know how they do the hand-off as 10GbE interfaces are simply not useful for home use.

[atonparker]

I live in the Detroit Metro area, and despite the way the article was titled, the 100Gb and 10Gb service doesn't seem like the main announcement to me. I would love to get 1Gb/s for $70 a month, especially from someone other than Comcast.

[bluedino]

This is only for 19 buildings, and it sounds like they are all owned by Dan Gilbert who also is the investor behind the project.

[vidarh]

It's new and pointless at this point for individuals.

Very few places will be able to stream anything to them at 10GbE. Most regular harddrives have a bandwidth substantially below that - it takes an expensive RAID or high end SSD to feed a single user at that speed....

For an apartment complex, though, it might be useful to take 10GbE link...

Even on the business side - I run racks of servers handling dozens of clients running booking services for several hundred restaurants, and we're using tens of Mbps including really excessive amounts of regular disaster recovery syncs and backups between our two data centres.. Some companies will benefit, but most won't get anywhere near...

I think this is more of the case that it doesn't cost them that more to offer to set things up for 10GbE, since these users will mostly be limited by upstream servers that won't send them traffic enough so their bandwidth usage won't go up nearly as much as it theoretically could, so it's part a long term view, part a competitive move to make 1Gbps or less from competitors seem too little or too expensive for what you get.

[CyberDildonics]

I see comments like this on every announcement of fast internet and it is very narrow minded.

Working remotely, high res video conferencing, screen casting, and even booting a computer remotely over the internet are all big applications for things like this.

With a 10gb connection you could have a computer at home that would boot remotely and be part of a company's network as if you were in the office.

[vidarh]

Most people could do that with 1Gbps without any caching. If you want to run off fast remote SSDs, then yes, you may be able to exceed a 1Gbps connection. But if you're willing to pay for a suitable switch and network card for your computer, you'd be better off buying a high end SSD for your home machine.

Most office networks I've dealt with have fileservers attached that couldn't max out a 1Gbps connection at the best of days.

Of the rack fulls of servers I manage, we have a total of 2 unused 10GbE connections - this is fairly typical. Most peoples servers don't yet have more than a couple of 1Gbps connections. So trying to max out a 10GbE connection is an exercise in frustration.

Yes, there are the rare exceptional circumstance where someone could manage to make use of it, but they are just that: rare and exceptional.

Yes, there will be a time we can max it out with ease, but it's not there yet, and at the rate of adoption of 10GbE even for servers it won't be anytime soon.

[noxryan]

It's not entirely new, US Internet offers 10GbE residential in Minneapolis.

http://fiber.usinternet.com/