Many existing systems, they note, lack the capacity to meet mush
rooming demand for bandwidth. The new, stimulus-funded networks
will provide far more-robust connections - many of them offering speeds of up to 100 megabits or
even 10 gigabits per second to schools, libraries and other "anchor institutions." That's 20 to
2,000 times faster than the DSL and cable wires linking most U.S. homes.