Curious what they're using for backhaul wireless links if they're offering 1 gbps service. Not many solutions can handle that kind of speed.
Right now you can get away with a lot of "oversubscription" in MDU situations when you have 1-2Gbps to the building (typical millimeter-wave radio speeds).
I wouldn't be surprised if they have buildings fed with 1x1Gbps going to 40x1Gbps clients.
(hand waving about Erlangs and queuing theory here) E.g. if you assume everyone is downloading a DVD image from a fast mirror (CentOS install DVD or something), they probably won't all start the download at the same time so there's a really good chance one user will finish their download before someone else starts theirs.
My MDU users rarely crack 1Mbps on a 30-day 95th percentile basis.
Are you preparing for popular streaming video products pushing 4K content?
A popular model is to use wireless until enough you have enough customers in a building to justify building out fiber so you can supply more bandwidth. Even without fiber you could have a 50 unit building with half the units streaming 4K@30Mbps simultaneously and have enough bandwidth left over for typical web use.
Re:Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass
by rayiner on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @08:46PM
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Looks like millimeter wave: https://webpass.net/about_network.
It's point to point wireless to a building and Ethernet from there. No real latency issue there.