UK homes to get super-fast fibre
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UK homes in certain towns will  benefit from 100Mbps broadband, delivered via the sewers.
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By Steve Pain Deputy Business Editor  BT is to spend more than half a billion pounds to take the West Midlands into the 21st century with an advanced communications network which will triple internet speeds, radically transforming business and home computer use.
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Netgear, Devolo step up data-over-mains efforts Network equipment maker Netgear has extended the speed of its powerline networking system to 200Mbps, bringing the high-speed Ethernet-over-mains system to UK consumers through a new two-box starter kit, the company told Reg Hardware this week.â¦
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Jupiter lights the way Efforts to get the net neutrality bandwagon rolling in the UK continue, with new predictions that ISPs are set to charge content providers for faster loading.â¦
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SIXTEEN households in a subdivision in Manukau have become the first families in New Zealand to get fibre- to-the-home, generally touted as the best type of broadband connection possible.
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She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.
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High-speed Internet access is becoming more and more popular, study shows.
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Further upping the ante in its effort to steal customers from cable providers, Verizon unveiled out a new high-speed symmetrical plan for its FiOS Internet service. Subscribers will have both 20Mbit/sec download and 20Mbit/sec upload speeds - something that is unheard of in the industry.
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The Story: Some technologies always seem to be ?just around the corner.? Seven years ago, there was a big flurry of interest in end-to-end Ethernet (aka metro Ethernet) as a brace of new ventures promised to cut through the complexities of wide area networking.[ Slideshow: 2007's top underreported tech stories ]                                                    They didn?t deliver. One big reason: building a new network that will reach into offices and homes costs beaucoup bucks. As IDC analyst Boyd Chastant puts it, ?Digging a whole in the ground never gets cheaper.?Laying fiber is still expensive, but now telcos ? including AT&amp;T, Verizon, and Qwest ? plus cable companies such as Optimum LightPath, Cox, and Time Warner that already have fiber in the ground are offering Ethernet services. LightPath, for example, boasts of 2,500 miles of fiber in the ground and says it has lit more than 2,000 buildings in its service area in the northeast.End-to-end Ethernet offers a very affordable way to connect LANs to a wide area network. After all, every router has an Ethernet interface, you don?t need much special hardware, and the technology is very familiar. So most IT staffers will have little trouble adapting, says Burton Group analyst Jeff Young. That is, if you can get it: Pricing depends on your need for speed, and not all of the providers offer it throughout their service areas.Raw bandwidth isn?t Ethernet?s big advantage. It?s not necessarily much faster than private lines. However, says Chastant, it is more scalable. Conventional private-line services offer speeds near the bottom (around 10Mbps) and the near top (around 10Gbps), but not much in the middle. End-to-end Ethernet solves that. And it can be tied to Internet access, bumping up access speeds appreciably.Availability is on the upswing too, says Boyd. In the past, carriers worried that end-to-end Ethernet service would cannibalize other data services. But now that demand has reached critical mass, that concern appears to have faded. Meanwhile, providers and equipment manufacturers are ironing out incompatibles and clarifying service definitions in the Metro Ethernet Forum, Chastant says.It looks like we?ve turned the corner and end-to-end Ethernet is right in front of us.The Bottom Line: If your carrier doesn?t provide end-to-end Ethernet, another provider likely does. It?s worth the trouble to look: End-to-end Ethernet will give you the performance you need and because it?s a familiar technology you won?t have to retrain or replace your IT staff.Complete list of 2007 underreported stories: 1.? Java is becoming the new Cobol 2.? Sun Microsystems is back in the game 3.? Hackers take aim at Mac OS X 4.? There are some threats you can worry less about 5.? Companies may have found a way around H-1B visa limits 6.? Open source?s new commercial strategy 7.? End-to-end Ethernet finally arrives 8.? Blade servers arrive for the masses 9.? BI is dead; long live BI 10. Balance of power shifts to software buyers
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A 100Gbps internet link has been established between the east and west coasts of the US for the first time.   The Internet2 project is capable of carrying information 100,000 times faster than the fastest current home network.  (c) 2007 Sunday Mirror; London.
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Wireless speeds of 300 Mbps downstream. That&#39;s the goal of &quot;Super 3G&quot; experiments that Japanese telecommunications giant NTT DoCoMo will begin this month.
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More flexible, easier-to-cut polymer-based optical fiber should enable home installations.
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Users don't care about speed, telco claims BT is aiming to push access speed down the broadband agenda as the copper wires into homes swiftly approach their technological limits.â¦
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The relentless pursuit for faster, cheaper broadband is leading to perhaps the last unclaimed conduit to your house: natural gas pipes. Nethercomm, a San Diego-area start-up, says it has developed technology to send lightning-fast broadband and TV services via wireless signals through the pipes.
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Think of it as Wi-Fi on steroids.  On its way to U.S. living rooms and maybe even automobiles is a  new type of high-speed wireless connection that promises  downloaded data rates of up to 1 gigabit per second -- roughly  18.5 times the speed of Wi-Fi -- to personal computers and  other devices.
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More phone and cable companies promise high-speed Internet access, but how is a consumer to know?
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Mobile phone giant Vodafone is to offer its millions of UK customers high-speed internet connections in the home.   Vodafone said it will enter the fixed-line broadband market "before the end of the year" after striking a deal with BT.