People expect four to five bars signal and enough bandwidth to stream video at all times.
VOD's latest break comes thanks to cheaper ways of creating enough bandwidth to deliver broadcast-quality video.
Powerline systems allow data to be exchanged across existing electrical wiring in your home and now offers enough bandwidth to deliver high definition content.
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"These things are important because users can never get enough bandwidth and control, " said Craig Johnson, president of the PITA Group, a Portland, Ore.
Even in its first phase, 72 of these routers, lashed together, have enough bandwidth, in theory, to move the Library of Congress in 4.6 seconds.
Service providers have been searching for ways to provide enough bandwidth.
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Many people have enough bandwidth to make rich video practical via the web, and they have enough experience with web video (via Skype, Netflix, etc.) to be comfortable.
Mr. CLELAND: And that's--when you go digital and when you're over the Internet and you have enough reliable bandwidth, you can get very high quality.
If that's not enough to push your bandwidth (and patience) to the limit, Microsoft's going to making the complete Office 2007 lineup available for purchase and download at the same time as well.
Take out hardware, software and bandwidth costs, and enough might be left to support two employees or so.
To keep videos streaming on demand without annoying delays, most video sites use expensive content delivery networks like Akamai and Limelight, and sites like YouTube--as well as clones launched by practically every television network--have struggled to find an advertising model that produces enough revenue to offset those ballooning bandwidth costs.
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