Quality of Broadband services

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. Nowadays the Internet is facing major reengineering on its infrastructure due to an increasing need of high capacity as well as a low-latency network services. These needs are consequences of the increasing interests of users towards IPTV. Since this type of contents are bandwidth intensive and require a constant flow of datas

Enablers

New transmission technology Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Hybrid fiber wire (HFW) WiFi Wi-Max IPv6 implementation

Inhibitors

• Unexpected growth of the Internet traffic