Actually inet7 in der Schweiz offers 25000 as their standard fibre package. Hardware for this is prohibitively expensive for most but it's great that they are pushing for more adoption by allowing those on a plan to speed up if they want to
- technologies had to be evaluated to be allowed on the network. This process took years. Git (as a replacement for subversion) had been in evaluation for over 14 years at the time.
- network authentication mechanisms made building an http/s Webservice internally impossible without the security teams approval which takes months.
- ironically the 'rules' around 'security' were regularly broken and not audited when it was convenient for someone with the clout to make something happen.