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Faster Internet, Anyone?

Posted by on Jul 11, 2008 | 2 Comments

This certainly got me excited in hopes that we can catch up with South Korea and various parts of Europe as clealy, broadband in North America (US and Canada) leaves a lot to be desired. Still, at least we have broadband at all I suppose. And with the promise of the new technology described in this article, I for one am hopeful that we will see ISPs not feeling like they need to clamp down so hard on usage.

Who knows, perhaps what was once finite bandwidth in the eyes of the of the ISPs will translate into better service for the end users? Yeah, not too likely. More than likely it will mean higher speeds at a higher cost. But at least we know that we will not be hitting any real bad slow downs if this new photonic integrated circuit technology will hopefully put a stop to those stupid bandwidth caps! One can always hope anyway. Have a great weekend everyone.

  • AG Wright

    That would be useful IF fiber were accessible to neighborhoods, however, here in Arkansas the state utility regulatory body has ruled that SWB has to share access on their new fiber with the smaller, competing telcos.
    A customer of mine was watching with extreme interest as they were running fiber in his neighborhood. After that ruling, 6 or 7 years ago now, a crew came in and wrapped up the terminus and the last time I talked to him nobody had ever been back to work on it.

    AG

  • http://www.calcresult.com/news.html Mike

    I am sorry, but for the majority of ISP’s this only makes things worse!
    Only a select few own an international network; everyone else must buy into the transatlantic (etc.) links owned by the big boys. If you want to put more traffic through them, then you need to lay more of them, and that costs a lot of money. Faster broadband at the home just means more traffic at the bottlenecks, and that is not the switching fabric but the major trunk cables.