You can get a 10Gb line installed anywhere you want already. It just depends how deep your pockets are.

Well as long as they can get it. I guess that BT will charge silly prices (not allowing for the data cap).

No cap on business fibre lines, you're paying for a full uncontended line. The line's not too bad (£100k a month or so). It's the install that's the killer (up to £1,000,000 or so)

Ouch. Though for a big company or organisation that is insignificant. For smaller operations it makes an impact. Thanks for the details.

Smaller operations aren't going to want a 10Gb/s uncontended line, at least not if they've got half an ounce of sense. They'll either get something more appropriate to their needs or they'll have their servers in the data centres of a big ISP that can offer them that kind of bandwidth when they need it and charge then much less for hosting when they don't.

The only time you need that kind of bandwidth is if you're running a full on datacentre or a massive call-centre for VOIP. We were one one the major hosts for the UK academic super-computing network a couple of years back which was chucking terabytes of data between nodes around the UK and along with all the other University traffic (and we're one of the bigger UK universities) we never actually flooded the 10Gb/s line we had. Unless you're a major corporation 10Gb/s is overkill.

Jon

Yes the speed is handy but few need the traffic. So yes it is overkill.