Goldilocks time for retail broadband
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Too big, too small, just right? Analysis There are two main problems facing the retail broadband market: it isn't great to be small, unless you are really small, and it isn't easy to be big, unless you are really big.â¦
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But UK still in the dark There are now over one million fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband connections in Europe, according to an Informa report.â¦
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Shaw Communications Inc. (TSX: SJR.B) (NYSE: SJR) today announced they are increasing the download and upload speeds of their High-Speed Lite Internet service. The download speed has doubled from 128 Kbps to 256 Kbps which is 10 times faster than any traditional dial-up Internet connection.
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Uptime Goldilocks could love NEC and Stratus promised you new, beefy fault tolerant servers would ship in June. But the boxes ended up shipping in July. We'll forgive the vendors a wee, one-month lapse, especially since they've tossed out some new, low-end additions as well.â¦
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FTP, VPNs and Outlook should now be working Just as 3 launches its Â£10 tariff in the UK, its service in Ireland has been suffering incompatibilities, slow speeds, and complaints, forcing the company to waive a month's subs as it struggles to get the service usable.â¦
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By Edited by STEVE HAWKES  BRITAIN'S biggest mobile phone firm plans to launch a high-speed internet service for the home.   Vodafone Broadband will be available before the end of the year.
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Amputates vestigial home broadband tentacle Cable and Wireless has fired off letters to Bulldog broadband customers telling them they will be cut off in less than a month because it doesn't want them dangling around anymore.â¦
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UPDATED America Online has begun to notify customers in nine Southern states that it will cease its broadband Internet service on January 17, 2005. The change affects members who have been receiving a bundle of DSL connectivity and AOL. Current customers must find a new broadband carrier by the cutoff date, or they will automatically become standard AOL dial-up members.
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New Edge Networks says membership in the Retail Broadband Alliance now tops 200 member companies whose products and services for retailers rely on broadband networks. New Edge Networks made the announcement Wednesday at the 3rd Annual Global POS & Store Operations Summit in Las Vegas, Nev.
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All reasonable offers considered Consolidation in the broadband sector looks set to continue apace, as Carphone Warehouse and BSkyB fight it out for control of AOL's UK broadband business, according to reports.â¦
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With broadband access an increasingly critical requirement in running a business, BT said as many as 78,000 more West Midland homes and businesses will be brought within reach of its broadband service next month.
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Science & environment: Â· Apple announces UK sale date for Â£269 gadgetÂ· Rural customers face network problems
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Broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) led a global boom in broadband Internet access over the 12 months ended June 30, growing to about 78 million total subscribers as users of all broadband services surpassed 123 million, the DSL Forum announced Wednesday.
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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 UK internet service provider is offering broadband that is sixteen times faster than average packages.
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Will a new set of FCC rules for broadband over power lines bring the Internet to millions more homes? On Friday, proponents of broadband Internet service over power lines hailed a recent decision by the US
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c60127)  has announced the addition of 2007 Global Broadband - Broadband is  Essential Infrastructure to their offering.