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China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds

China Telecom is driving 50G-PON and FTTR deployments

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China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds

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The current maximum speed per single-mode single-core fiber (aka, the typical FTTH ones), is on the order of 400,000,000Mbps, or 400,000Mbps per channel. Not much leapfrogging there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication#Parameters

This is generally referred to as 50Gpbs. It's impressive, but there's no need to use inappropriate scales.
- 50,000,000,000 baud communication!

That's "useful" when you can effectively only use it for Baidu, rednote, TikTok (the local version that's isolated from the rest of the world) and WeChat
- It’s easier to roll out if no one can saturate it!