Her fiber-optic connection could be world's fastest home uplink
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Swedish mum Sigbritt Lothberg has a 40/Gigabit connection installed at home!
To illustrate how fast this connection is, 10G is the current standard for many campus-wide backbone connections, which is often provided by some of Cisco Systems' most expensive ($100k and up) core switches and routers, such as the 7000 series products, and she already has that beat by a factor of 4x !
It wasn't that long ago when Cisco was selling 10G expansion cards for these routers at $10,000 -$20,000 per port!
A typical consumer type ADSL connection gives most users 1 to 1.5MB/s downstream (although some service plans are faster, at 2Mbit/s), so a 1G connection is approximately faster by a factor of roughly 1,000 - which makes 10G faster by a factor of roughly 10,000 and the 40G is, well, I think most can do the math from here.
Somehow, mum does not seem too terribly impressed with all of this networking power, and only uses it to browse newspapers, according to her son, networking expert Peter Lothberg.
