Cisco sees video as a must-have technology for its future, as its service-provider customers start offering a quadruple play that includes high-speed data, telephony, wireless and television service. During a conference call on Friday, Cisco CEO...
Berg predicts laptops with HSPA/LTE (high speed packet access/long term evolution) mobile broadband connectivity will grow from 8.4 million in 2007 to 49 million in 2013 - a compound annual growth rate of just over a third.
Jeff Janukowicz, research manager, hard disk drive components and solid state disk drives at IDC, said during the same conference, IDC expects a boom in the SSD (solid state drive) market from now until 2010, growing at a compound annual growth...
Given that most data traffic will be to or from the internet, Quocirca proposes another definition of broadband: Our definition is from the point of view of the end user and not the telco, who must roll out ADSL equipment to all its local exchanges.
Wales had the lowest growth rate, rising just three percentage points on last year to hit 45 per cent fat pipe penetration. Broadband Britain is flying a tweed flag: fat pipe penetration in rural areas has outstripped urban areas for the first time...
Even in the midst of economic slowdown and telecoms crisis, DSL rollout is still going ahead at a high rate. Already 2.97 per cent of Western Europe's telephone lines are providing DSL services compared to North America's 3.08 per cent line...