High Speed Internet News

Having initially identified six focus areas back in 2003 to drive future streams of revenue and growth, this number has now been expanded by a factor of five to 30 by Cisco, with the explosion of wireless and wired IP network data traffic being the common underpinning theme for all these. Plans by the company are being made to move ...

According to a recent report by the Telecommunications Industry Association there should be a fall of 27 percent this year in US spending on access equipment and a continuing drop over the next two years before it starts to grow again, even though there is an expectation of broadband stimulus funds in the next few months by the Federal ...

According to a popular broadband news site two wireless carriers will soon be offering Linux-based mobile hotspot devices from Novatel Wireless, with Sprint introducing the Linux-based device in June and Verizon Wireless offering the “MiFi 2200” to customers very soon. The MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspot is a low-cost, pocket sized device is a 3G/WiFi bridge/router that allows up to five ...

A recent announcement of an alliance between Clearwire and Cisco will see Cisco becoming its national core Internet infrastructure provider, which should help in the expansion of 4G mobile WiMAX services all over the United States. Plans for the 4G mobile WiMAX service by Clearwire, which is marketed as Clear, have been unveiled by Cisco in which it will be ...

A new cell site has been added in Killingly, CT as Verizon Wireless continue to expand its 3G wireless network, with an increase in both 3G and wireless voice coverage along State Route 695 between the Rhode Island border and the I-395 being provided by this new cell site. As the first provider to offer 3G connection speeds, Verizon Wireless ...

The main focus of the FTTH Conference and Expo 2009 will be the building of loyalty from subscribers in the current highly competitive marketplace and the generating of revenue from next-generation, fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks. The FTTH Conference and Expo 2009 has been scheduled for 27th September to 1st October 2009 and will be held at the George R Brown Convention ...

Based on an analysis by Pike & Fischer, a research company, the deployment of DOCSIS 3.0 to 99 percent of households that have so far been passed should be competed by US cable operators by 2013. It has been estimated by Pike & Fischer that at the end of 2008 about 15 million of 120 million homes passed nationwide were ...

In order to help jump-start project that are tied to the economic stimulus package from the US government that relates to information technology, which include clean technologies like smart-grid, $2 billion has been made available by IBM Global Financing, the lending and leasing arm of International Business Machines Corp.’s (IBM). The use of a variety of advanced technologies to digitally ...

A massive surge in the use of Wi-Fi during the first quarter of this year, which included several key factors like an increase in the number of consumers and broadband users the have devices enabled with W-Fi and a growth in the number of supported hot spots, according to reports from AT&T Inc. AT&T reported the number of Wi-Fi connections ...