Is this a real product? It reads like an April Fool's joke. They're 
talking about giving you 1,000 mbit/sec access to the Internet. That's 
10x faster than our LAN! That's crazy. Most people's Internet bandwidth 
is more like 2mbit/sec, or maybe as much as 8mbit/sec. I thought it was 
nuts when our house got upgraded to 80mbit/sec. But 1,000? That's insane!

On the other hand, does anybody remember back when email services would 
offer you, like, 2MB of storage space? And then a "premium option" to 
upgrade this to maybe 10MB or something? And then Google Mail came along 
and said "Hey, here's 1GB of storage. For free." And suddenly everybody 
else was like "WTF? They can DO that?? Holy cow, we're losing all our 
customers!!!"

When Google first proposed it, it sounded insane. I can personally 
remember micro-managing my inbox to delete old cruft to prevent it 
filling up. Today, having "only" a piffling 2MB to play with is the 

terabyte? So if each customer has 1GB, that's 3p per customer. That's 
peanuts.

I still remember with some amusement Hotmail suddenly upping their 
default mailbox size from 2MB to 250MB to 5GB. So, um, if you could do 
that all along, why didn't you? Basically, it seems Google did something 
revolutionary, and everybody else scrambled to catch up.

Internet access is different though. You can't just suddenly say "ah, 
sod it, let's just increase the speed 500x". It requires completely 
replacing the entire infrastructure of the Internet - a presumably 
impossible task. So... is this really real?

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