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.
Enablers
- Increasing use of new (high quality) type of connection: Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Hybrid fiber wire (HFW) WiFi Wi-Max
- Full implementation of IPv6 (Internet Protocol V6)
Inhibitors
- Unexpected growth of the Internet traffic
- Slowdown of investment in Infrastracture
Paradigms
Before: Up to couple of years ago Internet connections were often narrow-band, limiting the online experience to web-browsing, reading email and slow download through P2P software.
After: The Internet has become a multimedia channel, through which is possible stream contents from audio to video. This is just the begin of what will be in the future internet through a progressive improvement of the quality of Broadband services in order to support HD video, high quality contents and real-time online storage.
Experts
Timing
Web Resources
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