Tag archive: bandwidth

A new FCC report looks at the state of broadband Internet access in the United States and generally finds that providers are improving on actually delivering the upload and download bandwidth they advertise to their customers—but, as a group, they aren't there yet. The FCC's Measuring Broadband America report finds that providers are generally delivering 80 to 90 percent of advertised capacity to consumers, with a small… Read More

Networking giant Cisco has released its fifth annual Visual Networking Index Forecast, and predicts that by the year 2015 there will be more than 15 billion devices connected to the global Internet—that's more than double the planet's human population. What's more, Cisco also forecasts that the total amount of Internet traffic carried by the Internet in a year will quadruple by 2015, totaling up to 966 exabytes. A… Read More

The Motorola Atrix proadly attaches that 4G to its name, but its upload speeds beg to differ. Yesterday we learned that AT&T is throttling bandwidth for the phone and hasn’t enabled HSUPA capabilities. In light of customer complaints, the carrier explained it was in “testing and preparations” to enable the technology. But all of that apparently won’t come to fruition today, as the Atrix’s first update has begun to roll out without any signs… Read More

It's no secret that tension is brewing between streaming services like Netflix and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). A couple months back, Comcast even began charging a partner of Netflix called Level 3 to use its bandwidth. Streaming services use a lot of bandwidth and ISPs don't like it. Unfortunately, the times, they are changing, and customers are demanding more and more streaming video. In a blog post yesterday, Netflix called… Read More

Cable operator Comcast has announced that its rollout of DOCSIS 3.0-based wideband services that offers Internet connectivity at up to 12 Mbps—and a whopping 50 Mbps downstream in some places—is now complete across 30 percent of its network footprint, and the company anticipates the rollout will be available across 65 percent of its network by the end of 2009. The company says the wideband capability is now available to more… Read More

Speaking at the European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference in Stockholm, Ericsson's chief marketing officer Johan Bergendahl predicted the days of Wi-Fi hotspots are numbered as mobile broadband technologies become consumers' preferred method for accessing information and the Internet. Bergendahl noted mobile broadband is growing faster in Europe than cell phones or traditional phone service ever did, and likened… Read More

SC 05 is the sixth annual bandwidth challenge, and is being held on November 12-18th in Seattle Washington.  The contest challenges scientists and network engineers alike to innovate new and advanced techniques to push massive amounts of data to networked computers.  It also features the latest in networking technology itself. The key to the challenge not only is to move data, but to show a meaningful leap in networking… Read More