Of course, the fact that Japan bombed Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaya on December 7 (December 8 on that side of the international date line) may have had something to do with the UK declaring war on Japan. Had Germany bombed US overseas posessions on September 1, 1939, I don't think the US would have waited until 1941 to declare war...
GPON provides 2.5 Gb/s downstream and 1.2 Gb/s upstream, shared among 32 endpoints (currently; the technology is supposed to evolve to support 64 endpoints). In other words, each endpoint gets around 80 Mb/s downstream and around 40 Mb/s upstream. 2.5 Gb/s is the downstream system capacity between the optical line terminal and optical network terminal, not the service offered to an individual customer.
In addition, the back end of the optical line terminal is typically a single GbE port into the carrier's backbone, so there's a contention factor which limits the total bandwidth available to the subscribers served by the OLT to less than 1 Gb/s.
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Of course, the fact that Japan bombed Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaya on December 7 (December 8 on that side of the international date line) may have had something to do with the UK declaring war on Japan. Had Germany bombed US overseas posessions on September 1, 1939, I don't think the US would have waited until 1941 to declare war...
GPON provides 2.5 Gb/s downstream and 1.2 Gb/s upstream, shared among 32 endpoints (currently; the technology is supposed to evolve to support 64 endpoints). In other words, each endpoint gets around 80 Mb/s downstream and around 40 Mb/s upstream. 2.5 Gb/s is the downstream system capacity between the optical line terminal and optical network terminal, not the service offered to an individual customer. In addition, the back end of the optical line terminal is typically a single GbE port into the carrier's backbone, so there's a contention factor which limits the total bandwidth available to the subscribers served by the OLT to less than 1 Gb/s.