Difference between revisions of "Quality of Broadband services"
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<li>Increase use of new (high quality) type of connection: | |||
Fiber to the Home (FTTH) | Fiber to the Home (FTTH) | ||
Hybrid fiber wire (HFW) | Hybrid fiber wire (HFW) | ||
WiFi | WiFi | ||
Wi-Max | Wi-Max | ||
IPv6 implementation | IPv6 implementation</li> | ||
====Inhibitors==== | ====Inhibitors==== | ||
Revision as of 15:23, 17 May 2008
Description
Quality of a broadband services refers to the measures of the broadband technical performance. These measures consists of the bandwidth available and the latency of the network at the end-user side, which are issues of major relevance in the Internet environment. Nowadays USA after being for almost a decade the leading country on Internet services, especially broadband, is facing a major debacle due to not properly planned investment which resulted in low quality services, such as the so called broadband subscription which offer a tiny 436Kb of bandwidth, while European average bandwidth is around 5MB up to the 100MB of the average Japanese household.
Enablers
- Increase use of new (high quality) type of connection: Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Hybrid fiber wire (HFW) WiFi Wi-Max IPv6 implementation
- Unexpected growth of the Internet traffic