JargonFile/entries/fat pipe.txt
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fat pipe
A high-bandwidth connection to the Internet. When the term gained currency
in the mid-1990s, a T-1 (at 1.5 Mbits/second) was considered a fat pipe, but
the standard has risen. Now it suggests multiple T3s.