Ziply has announced that it is expanding its internet services with a new 50 Gig Fiber option. Available today across Ziply’s Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana fiber service area, the service, which is being advertised as “America’s fastest internet,” delivers ludicrous speeds that are many times faster than the company’s previous, 10 Gig tier, overshadowing competitors that include Google Fiber, which appears to tap out at 8 Gig. Ziply’s 50 Gig Fiber plan costs $900/month, however, and customers are subject to a $600 installation fee. They will also need to provide their own router/switch, as well as any additional in-home hardware or wiring.
“Nearly every customer I’ve spoken with cares about two things when it comes to their Internet – great speed and a reliable service for all they do online from the home,” said Harold Zeitz, CEO of Ziply Fiber. “Whether they choose our new 50 Gig service tier or any other fiber plan, customers can feel confident they’re on the best and fastest network available, regardless of speed tier they choose. The future is fiber, and for folks in the Northwest, that is Ziply Fiber.”
“The introduction of a fiber-optic network, now with speeds up to 50 Gig, closes the digital divide here in Sunnyside and ensures we have the broadband infrastructure necessary to support economic growth for decades to come,” added Elizabeth Alba, City Manager for Sunnyside, Washington, a town of approximately 16,000.
Ziply Fiber’s new 50 Gig service plan costs $900 per month and comes with both Static IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. There is also a one-time $600 installation fee. 50 Gig customers are required to provide their own router/switch and any additional in-home hardware or wiring for this service tier.
Today’s announcement continues Ziply Fiber’s culture of industry leadership and innovation. It was one of the first ISPs in the nation to deliver 5 Gig service at scale in 2022. It then became the fastest residential ISP in the Northwest with the introduction of symmetrical 10 Gig fiber service in 2023. All speed tiers are built on the company’s 100 percent fiber, multi-hundred Gig network, managed around the clock to ensure no peak time slowdowns, lag or buffering that can occur on other providers’ networks.
While some may need 50 Gig today, this speed tier is also a nod to the future. Investments that are funding fiber-based deployments are helping ensure this infrastructure can serve communities for generations to come.
Discussion (16 replies)
Join Discussion →Not gonna lie... would be neat to see a download that fast... but still not for that price... not to mention the enterprise grade hardware you would need to support that speed.
But if I'm banking more than 50k a month into investments... I could see going with this if it were available for my mansion. Rather than individual connections for each wing.
But really I just want to see what a 50 gig download from Steam can do. lol.
I'd love this, but I have absolutely no need for the bandwidth.
It would be tough to pay what would be mortgage money in some parts of the country for internet service, especially when you don't need it.
Still, really awesome.
Good for like a high end hotel catering to gamers or high bandwidth users. Yet the infrastructure cost to SUPPORT that speed would be very high.
Only if you had more than a few subscribers on the same line.
No I mean a core switch and router capable of even supporting that 50 gig pipe. Not to mention feeding what 10 gig out to users access points that would then offer 1 gig floor specific AP's.
I don't think there is networking equipment that can handle a 50 gig pipe in one shot. Even backbone equipment does a lot of bonding and multiplexing to handle high bandwidth. I'd imaging a 50 gig service comes in on a bundle of fiber. From there you're going in to some kind of channel bonders that breaks it down in to chunks of more manageable bandwidth, like banks of 10 gig ports. From there you'd be breaking it down even further in to switches for 1 gig devices.
Service like would be good for hign end user volume locations. Convention centers, stadiums, large hotels, where you need to service thousands of people at once. And, yeah, the cost to do so would be quite high.
If the NUC is capable they have 100 gig connections and higher available. Not your standard fiber mind you.
But you can take that and break it down to multiple 10 or 40 gig fiber connections, from there out to switches for 2.5 gig pipes. And so on.
Sounds pretty cheap for anyone that can make money off of it.
Yea if you had apartment complex's with more than a dozen units, you could profit on the raw cost. The real expense here is the IT infrastructure and hardware to support it correctly. You, at least today, can't just half ass it. You have to go all in and spend another 50k+ on hardware to do it right on your end.
I wonder if that would be allowed under the terms of service though.
I have never read the whole contract, but I am pretty sure the ISP would be unhappy if a neighborhood got together and all shared one Broadband/TV plan and just ran their own fiber (or wifi) between the homes.
Easier to do in a complex style building. But yea... it would be iffy. For a 50 gig connection I can't seem them NOT expecting people to do that.
That's damn near enough bandwidth to hos 100 1 gig connections for realistic use.
There are 48 houses in my little neighborhood. We'd all have dedicated 1 gig connections. For $18.75 each a month. LOL
Hell yeah I'd do that!
And here you see why some communities paid for their own fiber ring and connections to go in. There are communities with provided fiber at 10 gig to each home. And the bill is FAR lower than you would expect.
I mean, you'd have some hardware and cable running costs as well, as well as ongoing management of firewalls and private subnets for each household. So that adds some time and cost and time is money, so it adds cost.
Then you'd also have to hunt down the 48 homes in your neighborhood to make sure they paid you...
So it is not QUITE as easy as it sounds, but still....
My brother showed me these recently, cuz he lives in Washington State and has been stuck with Comcast, so he relates to PA Gabe's experience (also read the posts below the comics for more context):
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Ziply contacted my brother and let him know they are available in his area, so my brother is VERY excited about finally having some decent Internet access in WA.