Hong Kong Broadband Launches 1 Gbps Home Service for US$215/month

Ebonyks

Linkage: http://www.convergedigest.com/Bandwidth/newnetworksarticle.asp?ID=14545

Hong Kong Broadband Launches 1 Gbps Home Service for US$215/month
Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) officially launched its 1 Gbps symmetric service for the residential market. Approximately 800,000 households, out of a total of 2.2 million households in Hong Kong, are wired to receive the service. The 1 Gbps symmetric service is priced at US$215 per month.

HKBN noted that its 1 Gbps service is up to 166x faster downstream and 1,950x faster upstream than the advertised bandwidth of the incumbent's ADSL service.

HKBN Premium bb1000 service is being offered on the same metro Ethernet infrastructure that delivers the company's Mass Market bb100 (symmetric 100 Mbps for US$34/month) and Entry Point bb10 (symmetric 10 Mbps for US$16/month) services.

HKBN is installing more than 10,000 Cisco Catalyst LAN switches and more than 800 Cisco routers in buildings throughout Hong Kong. Category 5e copper cables are wired from the LAN switch cabinet to the apartments of each target customer. Fiber-to-the-building (FTTB) was deployed between the buildings using the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) and Cisco Catalyst 4507R Switches.
HKBN is also using a Cisco Optical Core network. The deployment includes the Cisco ONS 15454 SONET/SDH Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP); Cisco Catalyst 6500, Catalyst 4500, Catalyst 3350, and Catalyst 2950 series switches; and Cisco 2600XM Series routers. Cisco's ONS 15454 MSPP enables the carrier to converge its legacy voice and data services and a new pay-TV service into a single platform, and at the same time offer Layer 2 and 3 IP services using Resilient Packet Ring (RPR)-ready ML Series line cards. The network enables HKBN to deliver up to 200 digital pay-TV channels via MPEG-2 at 4.5 Mbps to 10 Mbps with DVD visual quality. Its service also features interactive pay-TV elements and enables PC or TV connection with the aid of a set-top box

Thats like €165, I'd shell out this much no questions. Also, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this close to hard drive write speed? Feck off Ireland and hello Jackie Chan. I'm goina HK!

JNive

10MB symmetric for €12 / month, now thats what i call broadband lol

my 7200rpm 120GB drives can read/write at about 70MB/sec (roughly 500MBit) includes the windows cache etc. so im not too sure how it would handle downloading Linux ISO at 1000MBit/sec roflmao

Yakuza

Wow - i have a 100MBs network at home...with 1GB broadband...*IT* would be the bottleneck.../swoon

Steffano2002

"10MB symmetric for €12 per month" and I pay 7 times that for a connection that is 5 times slower... Makes me sick...

julius

Hong Kong is a city of higher density than almost any other on earth.

Sh!t they are installing Cat5e to people homes for feck sake...you cant compare it to any other country/region on the planet!!!

Similar places where this idea would be applicable would be city centres of other multimillion population cities in the world and not a country!!!!

medO

Ebonyks wrote:

Linkage: http://www.convergedigest.com/Bandwidth/newnetworksarticle.asp?ID=14545

While this is clearly the way to go, their TV plans are rather alarming in their modesty in 2005. Many European countries started rolling out HDTV infrastructure from late last year (upgrading cable TV plant etc).

HK should be talking in terms of 20 Mbps and preferably MPEG4 in a new fibre set-up like this. DVD quality is not up to scratch on a (European spec) HDTV. Blue Ray disks are the way to go.

http://www.blu-ray.com/

medO

CyberGhost

Holy Zombie Jesus Christ!

Now that is a speed!

10mb for 12 euro just goes to show what a pathetic service is in Ireland

Ireland in Year: 2020

Eircom: 8mb download / 128kb upload
with an enormous and generous cap of 32GB per month

JNive

And yes we all realise that it is far more economically viable in Hong Kong since they are able to run ethernet cabling to your home etc. but thats not the point, the fact is, it is done, and 'economically viable' does change, the main point is not the cost/quality of the local loop, but the obvious capacity in Hong Kong to carry 1GBit from a persons connection across their network etc., and the sheer impossibility/unwillingness toi do a similar thing here, even if just 8MBit/sec 1MBit ( ADSL maximum), since the cost of traffic is nothing to do with the actual cost of the 'local loop' so to speak.

nadir

yes we suck
we do suck indeed