Quite possibly helped by the House of Cards debut, Netflix kept a healthy lead at 32.3 percent of downstream use on wired networks this past March.
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They hope to ride a networking standard called 802.11 or Wi-Fi (short for wireless fidelity), which easily converts wired office networks into wireless webs running at up to 11 megabits a second.
Until and unless high-speed wired and wireless networks are ubiquitous, none of this can happen.
Growth in mobile traffic is not simply a result of a shift in internet traffic from wired to mobile networks.
At the same time our use of the cloud for access to content could well choke the available bandwidth on wired and wireless networks.
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These assets could be leveraged by private companies to more cheaply build out wired and wireless networks, and by offering them up, Chicago gets an important voice in planning how the super high speed networks blanket the city.
In Asia, where far more people carry cellphones and watch TV than surf the Net, the investments also acknowledge that Internet content will in the future be accessed over different types of wired and wireless networks and on various devices, not just computers.
As they went from poor to rich they too would be wired up to landline networks.
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The currently rich nations were basically wired up for landline networks over the course of the past century.
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The standard will boost wireless networks to wired network speed, he notes.
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On the wired side, broadband networks capable of 100 megabits per second speeds passed less that 20% of U.S. homes in 2009.
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The most common means of protecting Wi-Fi networks, the Wired Equivalent Privacy encryption standard, or WEP, was broken in 2001.
Typical wireless networks merely adopted the wired approach of connecting one device to just one other.
According to the company, traditional phone companies spend about half of their wired expenses on maintaining increasingly obsolete copper networks.
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It will particularly benefit companies which operate outdoors, such as the mining, logging and construction industries, which will finally have a way to deploy temporary networks where there are no wired connections.
The two principal reasons were that generators used for backup power cannot run when underwater, and many of the wired lines carrying signals from the towers to the networks were knocked out by wind and trees.
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Google also plans to launch powerful Wi-Fi networks in those markets that piggyback on its wired network, allowing anyone to use their mobile device to access the Web while they are in public spaces, said people familiar with the matter.
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While my Indonesian friends and I used to run in fields with water buffalo and goats -- (laughter) -- a new generation of Indonesians is among the most wired in the world -- connected through cell phones and social networks.
She is right that physics imposes more severe constraints on wireless networks and that mobile never delivers the cutting edge video service that wired can.
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