Entropic's
Broadband Access solution leverages its highly successful and field-proven silicon, based on the MoCA standard, which enables a full mesh network to be formed using existing coax cables and splitters, and is comprised of its EN3011 Access NC and the EN3230 Access Client silicon.
One North East eBusiness Specialist Stephen Carey said: "In 2005 One North East funded
broadband access to the final 26 telephone exchanges in the region that had not been previously connected.
Legislators from areas with no
broadband access available issued a slew of statements celebrating the long-sought initiative yesterday, because without state intervention residents and businesses have no way of knowing how long they may continue to go without high-speed Internet service.
Under current Federal Communications Commission standards, a Zip code with as little as one
broadband access point is designated as having
broadband access, though coverage of that area is hardly ubiquitous.
The Ovation MC870D is a pocket-sized, HSDPA USB modem with mobile
broadband access download speeds of up to 7.2 Mb/s which can be used with either a laptop or a desktop PC.
In October, following the final phase of the project, 99.97 per cent of premises will enjoy
broadband access.
Under the agreement Ericsson would deliver its Public Ethernet
Broadband Access solution, becoming the first ADSL2+ in service in the Northern Latin America market region.
It also demonstrates that in addition to Ciena's specialist expertise in other high-growth areas --including
broadband access and carrier-class Ethernet--we maintain our strong leadership position and commitment to core networking," said Eric Sele, Ciena's managing director for Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology, which uses normal telephone lines for
broadband access, started slow, but has now taken over nearly 60 per cent of the broadband market.
KT also has a contract with India's largest fixed-line operator, state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam, to provide its expertise in
broadband access as well as equipment.
The growing popularity of wireless home networks makes providing employees with portable PCs equipped with wireless network adapters even more compelling--they can be more productive because they can tap into their home networks for off-hours
broadband access.
As Robert Crandall of the Brookings Institution noted in a report last year, even a modest upsurge in the number of homes equipped with
broadband access would add $500 billion to the gross domestic product.