Re:The Last Mile (Score 1)

correct. the bottleneck is not from the user to the access node (DSLAM, etc.) but from the DSLAM backhaul into the aggregation point. This is all still within the edge of the network. The core network is in a air-con data centre somewhere with 10GE connections. The connection from the DSLAM (DSL aggregation point) to the edge router is usually still ATM in most places and where the bottleneck usually occurs due to oversubscription, etc. your complete movie archive in seconds is worthless if everyone in your street is doing it, the traffic never gets as far as the core before congestion occurs.