Verizon Goes Up & Down at 10 Gbps in Tests | GigaOM
Verizon said today it had conducted a successful trial of 10 gigabit per second connections on both the download side and on the upload side. The broadband provider has successfully tested 10 Gigabits per second down last December but was limited to 2.5 Gbps on the upload side, and we all know that symmetry is beautiful when we’re talking faces or broadband speeds. Plus, at 10 Gbps you can upload HD movies in seconds rather than minutes. But these speeds aren’t really about consumer applications today, but more for shifting the terabytes of data businesses are aiming to analyze in the near future and for medical imaging and other high-bandwidth needs. Believe it or not, at the enterprise level we are creating more data than we can analyze and send across current networks.