We’ve covered the US Ignite and Gig.U initiatives on this blog over the course of the past few months, and now we’ve been pointed to a great video that explains, in fairly concrete terms, exactly what high-capacity networking means for everyday consumers. The video was produced by our friends at the Australian National Broadband Network (NBN) — but the key points are applicable to the U.S. just the same.

I encourage you to watch the 7-minute video after the jump…

And special thanks to David Lassner, VP for Information Technology and CIO for the University of Hawaii, one of the Gig.U members, who first pointed us to this video.

(Contributed by Erwin Gianchandani, CCC Director)