http://gigaom.com/2009/09/02/qwest-sees-the-future-and-its-100gbps-for-the-long-haul/ Sun, 19 May 2013 06:34:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2009/09/02/qwest-sees-the-future-and-its-100gbps-for-the-long-haul/#comment-223118 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:32:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=67342#comment-223118 [...] on its network grew 10 percent from the first to second quarter of 2009 (PDF). Qwest Communications recently announced plans to upgrade its long-haul network to 100Gbps. The company recently said that Internet traffic is [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/09/02/qwest-sees-the-future-and-its-100gbps-for-the-long-haul/#comment-223117 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:55:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=67342#comment-223117 100 Gbps is where we are headed, undoubtably. Qwest is going to be a pioneer. I remember installing what was probably the first DS3 Frame Relay access connection in the mid1990s, about 15 years ago, and that was quite leading edge. The backbone of the Internet had only been upgraded to T1 about 4 years earlier (1991 I believe). 100 Gbps is (taking out my trusty, well-worn college calculator) over 2000 times as fast. If we assume both are comparably state-of-the-art for their time, then maximum access bandwidth is doubling about every 18 months (hmm, sounds something like Moore’s law).

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