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> 25gbit symmetrical available

Unless I was building a data center, think AWS/Azure, 25gb would not even be an option given I would want to burn money in the US.

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As a software engineer, I would use 25gbit daily, particularly during EU and US work hours (my team crosses continents).

I'd download those yuuuuuge deployments in seconds instead of minutes.

And the scary thing is... I'd be super tempted to actually get it if it were offered here. I already have 1gbit fiber and the hardware for 10gbit. I wouldn't need to upgrade much to utilize it.

Well, I would if the servers I'm downloading from could provide at that speed. I'm pretty sure they're connected at 10gbit for a lot of the same reasons.

No server is going to give you 25 gbit for yourself. Or routes are going to be congested. I have 1 gbit and almost all servers don't have that available for me.

I have one 1 gigabit and can fill it out using several services, downloading from steam and the playstation store will max out my one gigabits.

But in general I think if you build it people will find usecases for it.

Your company will give you 25gbit bandwidth on a VPN?

"640k ought to be enough for anybody"

Who are you quoting and why? Bill Gates never said that.

I'd happily switch to it tomorrow if I could get it close to that price. I'd probably even eventually get around to getting switches and NICs that'd let me actually see the speed.

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