Other, lower bandwidth cells inside buildings could handle traffic from outside on sidewalks or streets.

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"Basically this allows you to have greater bandwidth and lower cost, " says American Technology Research analyst Albert Lin.

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To allow enterprise applications to use the cloud we need more secure, intelligent, higher bandwidth and lower-latency communication.

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Moreover, he points out, enhanced online and mobile experiences require rich interactions, in turn implying both higher bandwidth and lower latencies.

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From nothing in 1999, it now has over 50m subscribers, attracted by vastly lower monthly fees and broader bandwidth, despite its limited ability to roam.

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Like Telseon, Yipes promises far more bandwidth at a far lower cost.

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Red Storm is a high-bandwidth, massively parallel processing supercomputing package, priced much lower than its flagship Cray X1 system, which it sells mostly to the government and military.

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For instance, high definition 1080p video can be converted to lower resolution 480p video to play on a smartphone (conserving network bandwidth and battery power) and, at the same time, to 720p video for displaying clearer pictures on a tablet.

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This is due to the continual decrease in the costs of on-line bandwidth, improvements in content compression, the proliferation of mobile viewing devices with smaller screens (and thus lower resolution requirements) as well as increased levels of cloud storage to support download and streaming markets.

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