But there is a third pillar to renewed prosperity: bandwidth last-mile bandwidth (LMB).
Is OnLive a service that could exist in a higher-bandwidth future but not in our mediocre bandwidth present?
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It uses dynamic bandwidth allocation, giving administrators the ability to control each network's access privileges and bandwidth quota.
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But there is a third pillar to renewed prosperity: bandwidth last-mile bandwidth (LMB).
They do it anyway because over time iPhone users are voracious consumers of bandwidth and it is bandwidth that the Telcos sell.
The idea here is that IDT's switches will offload tasks that take up a lot of bandwidth from the digital signal processors, thus improving bandwidth performance by up to 20%.
As I posted in September, Netflix faces competition when it comes to buying the licenses to stream content and it also must contend with bandwidth suppliers who charge customers more money when they exceed their monthly bandwidth allotment.
In fact, wireless bandwidth may soon surpass the bandwidth of broadband to the home, and the Centrino chips from Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) that enable wireless access on PCs, will become obsolete.
"The IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment report offers a simple but meaningful explanation of the underlying forces that are driving the never-ending, global bandwidth explosion, " said Brad Smith, senior vice president and industry analyst with LightCounting.com, a market research firm that analyzes and forecasts high-speed interconnects.
Already on-line video content access consumes about 50% of total internet bandwidth in the US and with more people accessing this content it is likely that we will saturate the available network bandwidth causing slower and less regular performance, this is a real killer for streaming content.
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FiOS, Verizon's fiber-optic solution, and Exede, ViaSat's high-bandwidth satellite service -- two common secondary offerings -- happen to be the two frontrunners in the FCC's latest broadband performance report, which rates companies based on actual download and upload speeds compared to advertised bandwidth, among other metrics.
About a hundred city-pair contracts will trade, predicts Thomas Gros, vice president of bandwidth trading for Enron.
McCaw has spent several years assembling extensive bandwidth in the 2.5 Gigahertz spectrum range.
Voice uses very little bandwidth and can still work just fine on existing 3G networks.
That means the more bandwidth subscribers use, the more they will have to pay.
Polycom says the app will use up to 50% less bandwidth than similar applications.
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With ever-greater precision (processing speed) and transportability (bandwidth), the triumph of digital was complete.
Newly introduced products and services find themselves starved for execution bandwidth from the organization.
Consumer advocates say all operators need to be more transparent about the cost of mobile bandwidth.
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Bandwidth's faster pace would disrupt the existing telecommunications industry first, then the computer industry.
The company is cutting prices for its cloud bandwidth and content delivery network services by 33%.
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Other, lower bandwidth cells inside buildings could handle traffic from outside on sidewalks or streets.
Think it this as narrow bandwidth in the pipeline connecting the US and China.
Flash the firmware on your wi-fi router so you can ensure your team gets good bandwidth.
The company responded by stripping graphics and links from the home page and boosting bandwidth.
If the U.S. is facing this enormous bandwidth shortage, that spectrum is worth a pretty penny.
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Likewise, accepting Moore's Law (and its equivalents in storage and bandwidth) is not easy.
Did any economist a generation ago predict the Internet or the explosion in bandwidth?
Bandwidth costs remain stubbornly high, the same plight that bedeviled YouTube in its early days.
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Second, they tend to focus on technical questions such as force coordination and bandwidth allocation.
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