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What sort of opportunities would open up if this sort of connection were ubiquitous?

I could see netbooting your desktop to avoid having to buy a hard drive.

Also instead of downloading large game assets they could just stream on demand. (Even though downloads would go really fast anyway.)

4K and 8K video streams are already done reasonably at 100 mbps. Some sort of 3D point cloud streaming?

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While yes, the bandwidth is certainly enough and comparable to fast (but not fastest) consumer-grade storage these days (2-3 GB/s), I'd be more concerned with latency issues as NVMe tends to have latency on the order of microseconds (so ~1/1000th that of a very low single-digit internet latency).

If you're uploading streaming video directly to consumers, without an intermediary cache (e.g. YouTube), your upload needs can essentially reach infinity. It's just a question of how many people are trying to view the stream, at what level of quality, at the same time. If you need an intermediary cache, you're more likely to be censored by the intermediary or the political jurisdiction in which the intermediary is found.

25 Gb/s, in this light, is small.

Yes, 25Gb/s is just enough to begin hosting your own high quality video content to a small community of people and handle mild spikes in traffic. This is probably the first point that there is enough bandwidth to satisfy that need for the majority of people.

Probably better video calls for one thing. If more bandwidth is available then you don't need to do as much work copmressing & decompressing the signal on each end

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