Street Broadband

Today relatively low data transmission speeds can be considered as one of the major problems of computer networks development. That is why the U.S. researchers worked at a completely new method of information transfer. They decided to use a device, which realizes optical signal and information processing. Those studies, funded by the National Science Foundation [...]

What factors have an influence on the speed of your Internet connection? Let’s consider those of them, which can be controlled and adjusted by the users themselves. So, the Internet speed depends on: your tariff plan; various viruses and other similar programs, as well as applications filtering traffic; settings of your operating system and hardware [...]

New spacecrafts will be able to send and receive data at much higher speeds. It will be sufficient for real time video broadcasting. Earlier vehicles and landers transmited data back to the Earth at speeds that were comparable to the dial-up Internet. So scientist could spend several tens of hours to receive the video from [...]

Google is going to launch its fiber-optic experimental network. As reported in the official company blog, Google’s innovative broadband network will allow to transfer data at ultra high speed. At least 50,000 users will be connected to this network at the first stage of the project. And then this figure may be increased to 500,000 [...]

People living in countryside can find themselves in a tight corner because of lack of high-speed broadband. This fact can have a direct impact upon their chances in the jobs market. Charlie Brooks, a famous journalist writing for The Sunday and The Daily Telegraph, counted that 10% of people in England will appear outside the [...]

Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (CES 2010) brings new technologies and shows that innovative gadgets leave testing laboratories and become part of our everyday life. Let’s take as an example the new long term evolution USB modem from LG that was demonstrated at CES this year. The LTE modem allows to download files at [...]

The O2 telecommunications company has deployed the first LTE (Long Term Evolution) network standard in Slough, Buckinghamshire. The photo of Slough in 1950, quiet life without 4G and even 3G Network deployment was put in charge of the Huawei Chinese company. Now inhabitants of Slough can enjoy high-speed mobile Internet. If the experiment is considered [...]

The Huawei Technologies company claims that i-Mo is the smallest wireless modem in the world. This gadget has become available to customers in Q2 2009, but still none of high-tech companies hasn’t tried to contest its superiority. i-Mo helps people to use high-speed Internet anytime and anywhere allowing to transfer data at speeds of up [...]