Currently with ADSL2+, the faster download speed with home internet connection is 24Mbits/s and the fastest uploads around 1Mbits.

With FTTH, download and upload speeds are physicaly limited to 1000Gbits/s !!!

A major ISP (Free) have announced a very affordable Fiber offer (50Mbits/2 ways for 29.99 euros) for 2007. And Erenis have just announced 60Mbits offer for less than 30 euros.

With 100Mbits, you can transfer a DVD in 10 minutes.
With 1Gbits, you can transfer it in less than 1 minute.
With 10Gbits, you can transfer it in few seconds !!

The first offers allow already to propose :

  • HD (High Definition) TV Broadcast.
  • HD Video on demand.
  • Good Quality Video conference.
  • ... and a lot of new things that need to be imagined.

But how to provide all the data needed for these new information highways ?

For TV broadcast (For IPTV or HD live web streaming), ISP and TV channel will certainly use Multicast (Already used for ADSL2+ IPTV). But for on demand content and personnal transfers, backbones will be certainly upgraded dramaticly and new huge datacenters will be built.

But rather than investing in new central data farms, our distributed hosting network will be certainly the right option in many cases.