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Re:Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in the US by rmrm on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:08PM (#11742667)
Network capacity is a continual bottleneck, and many billions are spent to upgrade the transport network yearly.

Transport signals have gone from 2.5G to 10G to 40G to 100G to 200G per wave, and from 8 waves to 16 waves to 40 waves to 96 waves to 100+ waves per fiber.

The bottleneck has existed for a decade at least, and is invested in to keep pushing it out at the same time all this other stuff is happening.

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Re:Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in the US by marssaxman on Sunday May 22, 2016 @09:21PM (#11751158)
Hmmm. Interesting that speeds at the edge don't appear to have changed much at all, in years. I didn't think there was much ongoing coverage expansion going on. What's driving the capacity investment? Greater utilization of existing connections? What's using up this capacity?
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