Thursday, December 02, 2004
10 Gigabits per second -- for free!
Ok, of course it won't exactly, precisely be free, somebody has to pay for it, but by analogy, today's transistors ARE free from the perpective of 20 years ago, and if we're talking incremental cost over 1 Gbit, then 10 Gbits mighty swell be free. Says here
Also thanks to Om Malik, who comes up first when you Google "Finn Helmer" in English, so he probably broke the story that alerted Jeff Hoel.
The multimillionaire founder of IT company Giga, Finn Helmer, has urged the Danish government to provide 10 gigabit/s Internet connections to every household in the country - free of chargeJeff Hoel, who pointed this out to me (thanks, Jeff), writes:
"My idea is an attempt at bringing Denmark to the forefront. From the very second that we sign a bill into law putting 10 Gigabit/s in every Danish home, we'll be on the lips of the entire world," Finn Helmer told IT magazine eDanmark . . . We need a free information marketplace, in the same way that we have free motorways."
Is Helmer nuts or not? (Up to now, I had sort of assumed theAnybody know how to get ahold of Finn Helmer?
sweet spot was between 100 Mb/s and 1 Gb/s.)
I'd like to know more about the plan. Is it point-to-point? How much
of the cost per home, $2137-$2672, is optronics? Is the optronics
standards-based and available off-the-shelf from multiple vendors?
Does it do IP TV? Is it capable of open access? What kind of backbone
does it take to support 10 Gb/s home links?
Also thanks to Om Malik, who comes up first when you Google "Finn Helmer" in English, so he probably broke the story that alerted Jeff Hoel.
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