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Google Fiber is offering early access to $250 per month 20-gig service - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Meh, you can do 20g over a pair of bonded sfp+. My cheap-ish Zyxel managed switch will let me do this

[โ€“] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Even assuming you could do this, and your backplane even supported it, most of your end devices are still limited to 1 GB NICs, so you would need a large amount of people utilizing your network for this to make sense.