Eli5: How do large properties/campuses have such large bandwidths for internet

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How are they able to support thousands of users at one time? I do a speed test and they aren’t like fiber optics level of speeds so how can they have so many users at one time? Is it because there are so many routers placed around the area? But even when I’m on campus I don’t see any wireless routers outside.

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Here in the UK, large enough universities and research insitutes use something called JANET. Its a high speed dedicated network which connects directly to the backbone of the Internet

JANET currently supports up to 2 terrabits a second.

But a lot of places are using their 100 gig connections.

This is by far plenty for large organisations.

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