While I’ve had a 1 Gbit/s Fiber connection at home in Paris since 2014 with speeds well beyond 250 Mbit/s downlink and 50 Mbit/s uplink, most people in Germany can still only dream of fiber connectivity. So while I consider myself fortunate with fiber in Paris and at least 50 Mbit/s down – 10 Mbit/s up in Cologne the next step has now been taken, 10 Gbit/s symmetric for home users!
Golem reports (already a few weeks ago) that Swiss mobile and fixed operator ‘Salt’ has now started offering 10 Gbit/s fiber connectivity (XGS-PON) in 30 cities in Switzerland in cooperation with local utilities that have deployed fibers to homes for around 50 swiss francs a month. The router delivered with the offer has one 10 Gbit/s Ethernet port and four ‘standard’ Gbit/s Ethernet ports. Yes, the 10 Gbit/s are shared, but hey, that’s quite a comfortable sharing situation…
So much for what you can do with fiber once it is there. And now to back to my 50 Mbit/s down – 10 up…