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Actually if you study network designs that actually allow full duplex X mbps (independant of what X is as soon as you hit realistic numbers of subscribers) you'll quickly see that it's physically impossible to come up with a network design that actually allows any to any connectivity outside of a datacenter.

And internationally, where we are dependant -mostly- on undersea cables, the capacity just isn't there.



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