China is once again showing how aggressively it is pushing the boundaries of technological infrastructure, specifically by launching the first domestic broadband with speeds of up to 10 Gbps, or approximately 10,000 Mbps. Pro imagine, that's about thirty times faster than what average users in Europe or the US are achieving today. Behind this leap nestIt's not just marketing, it's a fundamental technological upgrade. China is using a modern FTTR, or Fiber to the Room, architecture that brings fiber-optic connectivity directly to individual rooms in the home. The combination of advanced optical chips and massive investment in a national fiber-optic network that it has been building for years is now starting to yield concrete results.
While average speeds in developed countries are now around 300 Mbps and in the United States around 280 to 290 Mbps, China is creating a whole new category of connection. The difference is not just in the numbers, but in what such speeds enable. Downloading large files that take minutes today could be a matter of seconds. CloudLatency-free gaming, streaming 8K video without any buffering, or working with real-time AI tools on a massive scale are moving from a futuristic vision to a reality. This is where the real impact of this technology lies.
China has not been working on this technology for a year or two, but it is a long-term strategy of building infrastructure in which the state and the private sector have invested tens of billions of dollars. Thanks to this continuity, it can now be the first country to actually test such extreme speeds in ordinary households. The question remains, however, how quickly such a technology will reach the rest of the world. Historically, several years often pass between a technological breakthrough and its mass expansion. At the same time, how quickly the content and services themselves adapt will be key. Without them, even 10G internet does not make full sense. But one thing is certain now. Just like 4G or optical internet once did, 10G connections can redefine the way we work, have fun and communicate. And if it starts to spread massively, we will be in for another great revolution in the digital world.
Downloading at such a speed is not possible in most cases, because the other party would have to support such a speed, and even if it theoretically supports it, it is usually limited to one user downloading below 1 Gb/s. So real-world usage is very limited for now.
Leoš, if everyone thought like this, there would never be any progress or shift.
But 10G infrastructure only really makes sense in an enterprise environment.
Pro For households, the current 2000/1000 via fiber is absolutely sufficient even if 8K movies start streaming.
The same story applies to mobile networks, where 5G will simply be the ceiling for many years to come. Higher frequencies have less coverage and at the same time higher energy requirements - in short, realistic strategies with compromises must be set in this regard, and as a "lay" user, we should not think that, for example, in the Czech Republic we are lagging behind in the telecommunications sector (no, we are not).
Moreover, it is clear that this is primarily Chinese PR and in practice this infrastructure will be owned by several key entities and will not reach consumer users for a long time.
Given the limitations of the internet there, it doesn't matter. If I had to live there for some sci-fi reason, I would be happy with 20 Mbps, but without the communist Chinese firewall. When I was there, I was just amazed at everything that didn't work there. I was amazed even where I didn't expect it at all - for example, at the Steam library, which looks more like an exhibition of "a few allowed games". So what's the point of such internet?
Eeee… Not that I want to advertise, but Grape already provides this speed minialmost two years.
https://www.grapesc.cz/internet
XGS PON. Yeah, it's nice, but completely unnecessary for 95 percent of people. Nokia recently showed 25G PON and I think Vodafone has alreadyone he flirts with it.