I just got upgraded to a new 50Mbps Docsis 3 internet connection. Its just awesome....
This brought up an old question for me. With google building a gigabit fiber to the home internet connection, what would you or could you saturate that bandwidth with? As in what applications could possibly use it all up with nothing to spare?
1) Cloud/cluster computing
This one's a bit obvious I think. Computing clusters require massive bandwidth with very fast response times.
2) Direct Brain Communication
Having nano machines communicate with all the cells in the brain would require some pretty hefty bandwidth. This sounds crazy and probably is, but you never know I suppose what crazy things the future might hold around the corner.
Blogspot = blogging
Twitter = micro blogging
? = nano blogging (via direct brain communication?)
3) ?
Any ideas on what could saturate a gigabit internet connection?
Friend of mine said that for consumers, not a whole lot, but big businesses routinely go through much more than that for databases and such.
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