Korea to build 100M bps Internet system

InfoWorld.com ^ | November 18, 2003 | David Legard

[Paleo Conservative]

Korea to build 100M bps Internet system

Infrastructure will offer telecom, broadcasting and Internet access from a variety of devices

By David Legard, IDG News Service November 18, 2003

South Korea plans to build a nationwide Internet access infrastructure capable of speeds between 50M bps (bits per second) and 100M bps by 2010, the online edition of the Chosun Ilbo daily newspaper reported Tuesday.

The infrastructure will be known as the broadband convergence network (BcN) and will offer telecommunications, broadcasting and Internet access from a wide variety of devices, the paper said, quoting the Ministry of Information and Communication.

Construction of the BcN will be worth 95 trillion won (US$80.4 billion) in output of equipment and services, and will create 370,000 jobs by 2010, according to the Chosun Ilbo.

South Korea is already regarded as the world's leading broadband nation, with 11.3 million broadband subscribers in a population of 48 million, and with 85 percent of new subscribers opting for broadband, according to telecommunication equipment vendor Alcatel SA.

[Paleo Conservative]

I want a 100 Mbps internet connection.

[Alter Kaker]

I am told I have 50 Mbps connection at work. Is fast.

[garyb]

I would have though they would build at least a 1GB backbone. Cost incremental can't be very much.

[Dominic Harr]

The internet without broadband is like Movies without sound.

We're in the very earliest days of all this. The real 'internet boom' is just around the corner, and will make everything that has come before it seem tame by comparison.

[Young Werther]

one day I logged onto my DSL line and when the small window appeared at the lower right corner of my screen it said that I was connected at 100Mbp. I tested it by downloading a Adobe manual which had taken 10 minutes previously. It downloaded in a flash. To this day I haven't been able to figure out how this occurred except that the NIC cards are marked as 10-100Mbp but the ISP server must have hiccuped!

[CasearianDaoist]

Internet2 is putting up a 10GPS test bed right now. This Korean system really is not all that impressive considering what is coming down the pike.

[Michael Barnes]

Wow..A WHOLE 100 Mbits?

That's it, I'm moving there!

[Grit]

Beats 256 KILO bits
or 512 KILO bits
or 768 KILO bits

all at $50/mo and up.

[pcx99]

one day I logged onto my DSL line and when the small window appeared at the lower right corner of my screen it said that I was connected at 100Mbp.

Don't get too excited. That's just the speed your computer is talking to the modem at. The speed your modem talks to the rest of the internet is a whole other ball of wax (usually between 1megabit and 5megabit for consumer speeds).

[Paradox]

100mbps.. sorry, I am not that impressed. I mean, sure its better than what most people have and all, but heck, I got a network at home that runs at those speed.. I am just not that impressed. It can still take many minutes to transfer a large file from one computer to another.

Now, lets get in the Gigabit speed ranges.. then we're talkin..

[Paleo Conservative]

Now, lets get in the Gigabit speed ranges.. then we're talkin..

At those speeds, I could just link to DOQQ files instead of downloading them. But by that time 10 or 100 Gbps ethernet will be common in office networks.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[G L Tirebiter]

Internet2 is putting up a 10GPS test bed right now. This Korean system really is not all that impressive considering what is coming down the pike.

This is the access network - not the backbone. Living in the U.S.- where a 1.5M cable modem is hot stuff- I wouldn't be too smug.

[Prime Choice]

South Korea plans to build a nationwide Internet access infrastructure capable of speeds between 50M bps (bits per second) and 100M bps by 2010

So they can spam our e-mail inboxes even faster than they are right now.

(Sounds funny, but it's not.)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I posted this earlier:

Fast Track for Science Data : leg of an ultra-high-performance network will go live this week

[Benrand]

The backbone in the US is much faster than 100MBps, but they have to mean that this will be 100MBps to the residence.

[itsahoot]

Beats 256 KILO bits
or 512 KILO bits
or 768 KILO bits


Just checked mine at megapath(DSL Reports) i am using an 802.11b wireless LinkSys connection.
Your download speed : 1295726 bps, or 1295 kbps.

[New Horizon]

The backbone in the US is much faster than 100MBps, but they have to mean that this will be 100MBps to the residence.

A single ATM OC-12 connection runs at 622MBPS, and multiples of that have already been in place for years carrying our voice and data traffic.

[Malsua]

We have a gigabit backbone at work, and our OC3 line comes in at 155MBPS. It's still not fast enough. heh. Oh, and the fastest I've ever downloaded anything off the internet was a 10megabyte file in about 20 seconds. Of course, that was using IE, using an FTP client would have made it much faster I suspect.

I definately want gigabit to the desktop.