Google’s fiber effect: Fuel for a broadband explosion
The case-study with which the article starts isn't a particularly good example of a reason for upgrading to fibre-based connectivity: latency doesn't care whether your connection is 1Gbps or 1 Mbps.<p>There might be a slight improvement given that routers and switches aling the way have to operate faster to handle gigabit switching but in the UK the there have been complaints that VDSL interleaving ( which can't be turned-off ) actually raised latency above their ADSL levels.