2009/6/15 Mike Hammett <[email protected]>: > okay, PONs have gotten faster since I last looked. Last I knew they had > peaks of a few hundred megs per it's equivalent of an AP. Now it's peak is > 2.5 GB and there's a new spec due later this year for maybe 10 GB. I'll > open it up to PONs. ;-)
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