Re: sounds nice...
You seem to misunderstand how internet bandwidth functions. Just because a freeway only has 4 lanes does not mean that there can only be 4 cars on it at a time.
Currently, the maximum speed of an internet connection for 'Internet 1' is an OC-768, or about 39 gb/s. This does not mean that your downloads will come in at 39 gb/s.
To use a classic example, this means that it is possible for you to have 39 billion cars coming to or from your office in any one second. In practice, however, you'll probably never have more than about 10 million cars coming or going a second, because a) very few people have that many cars to send to you every second, b) the road/tube three intersections from your office only has space for that many cars every second, and c) there's to damn many trucks full of movies and spam around blocking the really big road/tube that can move 39 billion cars a second.
So, the announcement of being able to get your full 39 billion cars a second point to point is exciting, let alone 1,000 billion cars. It's kind of a big deal.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
