There has been much press coverage on the technologies, rollout rates and issues (such as SPAM, viruses, etc.) related to broadband deployment throughout the world. However little has been discussed on what are the fundamental drivers and controllers for residential and business telecommunications consumers using broadband as a delivery vehicle. This presentation will explore these consumer expectations of telecommunications and broadband, summarise the drivers and control points that dominate the market today and outline some of the drivers of change.
After broadband everywhere, users can bathe in unlimited data, or can they? What difference does the type of access make? Is a flavour of DSL better than 3G or WiMax, or are optical options making real kerbside broadband a reality? Are there other user factors that distinguish between the technologies? This talk summarises the access options and points out which technologies are optimal for the various situations.
In any discussion about building broadband services, a circular conversation always takes place around the merits of specific technologies - which is faster, which is better, which one will 'win'?
Proponents of wireless, high speed copper, hybrid-fibre-copper, and direct fibre all advocate the merits of each... the bases keep shifting - and the definition of 'winning' seems, somehow, to remain elusive. In the quest for 'more speed' and 'less cost', technical advances can render formerly 'outdated' approaches a new life, fostering sometimes surprising answers to the questions of "what is best", "what works", and "what doesn't".
As always, the challenge to the reader is to spot the 'vapourware' vs the 'real', in the ever-present forest of press releases and promises. In parallel to this universe of technology and geeks, we find the far stranger universe of telecommunications regulation, monopoly power, obstruction, cross-purposes and doublespeak that characterises the battle for access to existing broadband-compatible infrastructure in Australia - and which colours the efforts of those at work building new alternatives.
In this talk, we'll briefly compare and constrast the technical merits of the available technical approaches to deliver broadband today, and look at what each one is realistically capable of, today. We'll explain a few things, and bust a few myths. We will also try to understand the challenges that occur when we try to seed all these fine technical broadband services approaches into a regulatory and access landscape characterised by insufficient water, droughts, and the presence of a huge steamroller.
User-Controlled LightPaths are a simple yet powerful extension of the new Customer Owned Network paradigm. Enabled in Canada's CA*net 4 network infrastructure for over one year now, research and education users, as well the wider networking community, are starting to think of network resources in different ways. And this could just be the beginning ...
The presentation will review the basic concepts and drivers, provide real examples of uses, and suggest implications for the future of e-science.
High-speed internet bandwidth is available at any time, any place in Korea, in a cheap and easy way like air and tap water. It is no longer expensive and a special resource. 79% of households in Korea have broadband internet access as of the end of 2004, and it changes the behavior and life styles of people in Korea significantly.
Telcos in Korea are busy preparing for the era beyond broadband internet business, since the Korean market is almost saturated. Convergence between wire and wireless broadband internet is one of the major issues, and convergence between telecoms and broadcasting is another hot topic.
The confluence of peer-to-peer networking, digital social networks and mobile communications is producing a transformation in the way we locate and consume media. Peer-to-peer networks have ushered in an age of "hyperdistribution", using techniques which are rapidly surpassing broadcasting as the most efficient mechanism to distribute media to global audiences. Digital social networks are becoming the living, breathing digital representations of our social selves. And mobile communications are entangling us in an ever-tightening web of social intercourse. These three are coming together into one trend, which will multiply the power of the individual, create the first effective filters against the rising torrent of data smog, and prove the first absolutely indispensable prosthesis of the information age.
During the last decades, the optical and computing technologies have been riding a remarkable exponential curve, advancing by an order of magnitude every few years. Some speculate that an age of bandwidth bonanza is upon us and `throwing bandwidth' at complex network design issues has become viable. The bandwidth glut solves the problem of network-based service quality and the focus of carriers will shift to managing services and customer loyalty. In this presentation, we will demonstrate that the new generation of networked entertainment applications (and similar applications in other domains) is changing that perception. With the bottleneck of bandwidth removed, these applications face new challenges for wide-scale deployment. We will show that without proper design the performance of these services will not be satisfactory even under ideal conditions (abundance of bandwidth and processing capacity, no packet loss or jitter) and discuss our approach in addressing the new networking bottleneck of our time - managing latency.
I will use 3D virtual reality technologies to demonstrate how astronomers will use the wide-bandwidth links between Australia's major radio telescopes and the Swinburne supercomputer to study pulsars, wide-band radio transmitters that are sprinkled throughout our Galaxy. Grangenet will allow new precision to be realised that will give us the most accurate probe of the gravitational background generated by supermassive black hole binaries.
The use of advanced technologies such as ultra broadband Internet connections, as is being developed in the ViCCU project at Nepean and Blue Mountains Hospitals, will enable patients to enter one service at many sites and expect equity of outcome with reasonable geographic access. The system and use of ViCCU will be described with a short video.
Extending this further, the ability to provide high intensity critical clinical services at remote sites enables the exporting of services. Given that the ViCCU model is demonstrated to be effective and safe and with the pressure across the world for safe working hours, the prospect of exporting Critical Care, Surgical or other services is upon us.