Word: bandwidth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That means a significant investment in digital cameras and cables--a tough sell to a business with billions of dollars sunk in the old way of making TV. Then either your cable company has to carry the big HD version over its coaxial cables (taking up precious bandwidth that could otherwise carry more channels), or the local NBC affiliate has to broadcast it over...
...While almost every telecom company on the planet has postponed or shelved plans to build data-intensive, high-bandwidth mobile networks, Hutchison Whampoa is charging ahead undeterred. The company just launched pilot 3G (for third-generation) networks in England and Italy, and has aggressive plans to initiate similar services in seven other markets across the globe over the next several years. Even allies have doubts about the strategy. Hutchison's partners in the United Kingdom?Japan's NTT DoCoMo and the Netherlands' KPN Mobile?have written down the values of their portions of the business by 80% and 86%, respectively...
...Hutchison is entering a saturated market of entrenched incumbents with an untested product and no killer application. The primary benefit of 3G is, simply, speed. Data-transfer rates are about seven times those of 2G phones, and 3G is usually at least twice as fast as 2.5G. High bandwidth means 3G networks can handle more volume, all things being equal, so they are cheaper and more efficient to manage...
...invests more than $500,000 in the industry. It is also passing a raft of laws to protect and regulate the sector. And a recently completed undersea fiber-optic cable from Portugal along the west coast of Africa to India and Malaysia via Mauritius will increase the country's bandwidth by a factor of 4,000. Says Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth: "Our physical isolation will no longer hold us back...
...These [file sharing] programs can literally drain the network bandwidth,” said Kevin S. Davis ’98, director of residential computing for Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services...