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"I think in the future we will really see a data deluge - data will explode over the network," said Lee Suk-Chae, chairman of Korea Telecom. "And you cannot handle that data traffic only through the mobile internet. Although there will be LTE, still you won't be able to handle all that traffic. Fixed line is essential to support that traffic and in that sense, I think people want to watch the content they want anywhere, anytime, and to satisfy their demands you need to have a strong network, maybe a gigabit internet." Chae says that only 10 percent of data transfer is through 3G networks in South Korea, while 70 percent comes through Wi-Fi. Given the number of hotspots in the country's urban areas and the many times faster it is, we're not surprised.
A speed of 1Gbps in the Asian nation translates to maxing out your connection at a download speed of 128 megabytes per second. In other words, downloading a 700MB movie would take 5.47 seconds, a 4.7GB DVD would finish in 37.6 seconds, and a 50GB Blu-ray disc would appear on your computer in 6 minutes and 40 seconds. It looks like many South Koreans will soon be downloading at speeds the rest of us can only dream of.
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Lurker101 said:
Thought I might just add that 1,000MB is not 1GB
Did you really write that because of 24 MB?
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Leeky said:
Thought I might just add that 1,000MB is not 1GBIts not 1GB.
It's 1gbps (gigabits per second), or 1000mbps, (megabits per second) and since this is a measure of data bandwidth and thoroughput it is correct to assume 1000, not 1024.
The binary definition (1024) is used when expressing data storage, e.g. memory, hard disks etc.
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And here in South Africa most of us are still on dial up and 384kbs lines.Tsk, tsk, why so greedy? In your situation, a 3 Mbs DSL connection would seem like the future arrived early.
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My mechanical hdds write at 130meg/sec each and i have 2 of them in raid 0. The problem would be getting someone to download off at 1gbit. Obviously theses connections would be designed as backbones to hotspots like internet cafes which are everywhere in Korea. Like most people say its easily possible to run networks in Korea due to there small country size. Trying to compete with this feet would be utterly stupid is most large countries.
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Comparing an internet structure to 1 year of education is stupid as the internet structure will be there for 10-20 years plus. So by future proofing there internet structure the money they will make in the long run should hopefully pay for the cost of laying the network down. It may not pay for all of it but it won't end up costing the same as 1 year of education.
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whats 24 MB here or there when your talking GB speed?
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So all they need now is the Nic card to support it..
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imagine how much more starcraft they could play.
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omg i want it in the uk now
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