Articles - Bandwidth
RCN Metro - Way to Go!
Broadband development has been selective and bumpy and there is still much to do, but the industry has been steadily growing over the past decade in many ways and directions. The base technology at the chip and processor level has all improved dramatica...
FTTH Growing at 76 Percent Rate
Telecom strategists, policymakers and investors will disagree about the wisdom of fiber-to-home upgrades. AT&T continues to believe it made the right choice in opting for a less-expensive fiber-to-neighborhood network, while Verizon continues to believe i...
There Might be Light at the End of the Circuit
New heights are being reached in the business of the Internet and the views from up top are beginning to look a lot like real business decisions and not “me too” endless Internet for all. The public access gates of Utopia are closing and the E...
Video Telephony for the Enterprise - Users Will Demand It
Let me let you in on a well-kept secret in telecom: The video telephony market is booming. After years of respectable 20% annual growth, the market has shifted into high gear, ramping at around 50% per year, with sales in the multi-billions. Long looked...
THE UNFORESEEN PRICE WAR
With global bandwidth requirements increasing at perhaps 70 percent a year, and some carriers estimating that bandwidth now is growing faster than Moore’s Law, a stair step increase in undersea bandwidth across the Pacific, as well as additional ban...
Network Threats and Risks
Focusing too much attention on the applications that ride over IP on the public Internet is perilous. Blindly believing that all of those applications are “safe” and “secure” is just as ignorant and this is not limited to the appli...
You Can Never Be Too Rich or Too Pretty
Apparently, you can never have enough bandwidth either. But how much will be enough for both telcos and cable operators? Nobody yet knows how much Internet access bandwidth a typical user will need in the future, at peak times (average usage doesn’t...
Fiber to the Brain
There is an increasing amount of debate occuring these days on the subject of public Internet capacity availability. The concerns are arising mainly out of the knowledge that peer to peer (P2P) video traffic has jumped on most Internet networks to...
Where is Wholesale Headed?
If IP traffic does quintuple from 2006 to 2011, as Robert McIntyre, Cisco CTO, service provider technology group, believes will happen, one might ask what that portends for wholesale bandwidth markets, if not for voice wholesale markets. More specificall...
Global Bandwidth Grows, Local Bottleneck Remains
In the three years prior to 2007, global Internet bandwidth, virtually a proxy for all bandwidth, grew at a 43 to 46 percent annual rate, according to TeleGeography. So far this year, bandwidth is growing at a much-faster 68 percent clip. Video explai...
