And here we go, another capacity / demand cycle is coming to a close. The voices are getting weaker, but every now and then, people still ask me why somebody needs a 1 Gbps fiber link at home.
It is a valid question, and from my personal experience I could answer it so far that I frequently transfer large amounts of data, and I feel quite limited by my 100 Mbps VDSL line I have in Cologne, with no fiber in sight. I have definitely outgrown my VDSL line. So perhaps I am a bit of a special case. Well perhaps. But now, first main stream games are coming to the market that stream most of the data and content they require from servers ‘in the cloud’.
When looking through the requirements of such games, Internet connectivity now required for an ‘optimum’ experience is specified to be at least 100 Mbps in the downlink direction. Now imagine you have 4 people in the household with concurrent gaming, 4k video streaming, conference calling etc etc. and it doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see that I’m no longer a special case. 100 Mbps+ for a single application has arrived in the mainstream in 2024!