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Beyond Broadband - A Quiet Revolution

whitepaper When people talk about 'broadband', however, most are talking about Asymmetric DSL (ADSL), which is still essentially a consumer technology. The benefits of the Internet, both for businesses and the consumer are widely documented.

Tags: bandwidth issues, consumer, asymmetric dsl, talk

[11 May 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News A is for ADSL An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority (87 per cent) of European doctors use a computer - and almost half (48 per cent) have a broadband connection. The report - entitled Benchmarking ICT use among General Practitioners in...

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News A is for ADSL BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer relationship management...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News A is for ADSL The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Europe embracing speedy fat pipes

News A is for ADSL More than a quarter of a billion Europeans regularly use the internet with around 80 per cent of those people being hooked up to broadband connections. Around three-quarters (77 per cent) of businesses in Europe are now using high...

Tags: online, i2010, eu, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Tesco to launch iTunes challenger

News A is for ADSL Tesco is launching an online music service next month with more than three million tracks available to download and more content to follow. Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window Media format with around half...

Tags: mp3, online, digital music, itunes

[15 Apr 2008]

ATM Over ADSL Probe in Telecom Italia Environment

whitepaper This paper covers access network performance analysis by deploying ATM over ADSL within Telecom Italia experimental department "EXANET" (Experimental ATM Network). In the scenario presented in this paper, data traffic leaves customer site as ATM...

Tags: atm, atm, traffic, adsl

[10 Apr 2008]

Introduction to ADSL

whitepaper Today, superior data capacities can be achieved at a relatively low cost using Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology. Until recently, the available methods for transmitting and receiving data at high capacity were equally high-cost.

Tags: broadband, low cost, capacity, dedicated

[10 Apr 2008]

A Dual-Path TEQ Structure for DMT-ADSL Systems

whitepaper Discrete Multitone (DMT) modulation is the industry standard for Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Loop (ADSL) modems. DMT modulation allows for simplified equalization when the effective duration of the channel memory is shorter that the predefined...

Tags: dsl, channel, memory, optimized

[10 Apr 2008]

3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth

News A is for ADSL The number of 3.5G devices on the market is mushrooming with 150 per cent annual growth in HSDPA gizmos, according to stats from GSM/3G supplier association the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, hsdpa

[07 Apr 2008]

Meeting Test Challenges for ADSL ICs

whitepaper ADSL is a modem technology that exploits the unused capacity in ordinary two-wire telephone lines. It is asymmetric in that download speeds from the central office (CO) to the remote terminal (RT) can be up to four times faster than upload speeds.

Tags: broadband, consumer, rates, lines

[02 Apr 2008]

Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT

News A is for ADSL BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free 'Avatalk' phone and texting service. The one month virtual world pilot will start on 26 March allowing users to make 10 free calls (of up to one hour each) and send 10...

Tags: bt, trial, ip, sms

[20 Mar 2008]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News A is for ADSL For some time, many ISPs have been offering users what they call unlimited broadband, although it almost always comes with some kind of "fair usage" cap on downloads. PlusNet has been one of the few providers to buck this trend...

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

News A is for ADSL Sir Tim Berners-Lee, recognised as the founding father of the world wide web, claims the work of companies like Google has made the web a much more powerful tool. Speaking at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts...

Tags: berners-lee, semantic web, google, internet

[13 Mar 2008]

Tennis federation rallies web presence

Case Study A is for ADSL The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has beefed up its website to improve availability and speed for millions of tennis fans following the scores of Davis Cup matches online. The ITF runs the annual Davis Cup tournament, which...

Tags: tennis, ntt, website, servers

[12 Mar 2008]

Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide

News A is for ADSL Broadband may be as common, and almost as cheap, as chips in Blighty these days but there are plenty of places in the world where bog-standard fat pipes are harder to come by. The UN's comms agency, the International...

Tags: broadband, satellite, wimax, spectrum

[06 Mar 2008]

Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer

Cheat Sheet A is for ADSL Is this another one of those shiny Apple gadgets from Cupertino? Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on-demand TV service. Tell me more… Well users can download or stream BBC content broadcast during the preceding seven...

Tags: isp, online, on demand, iplayer

[05 Mar 2008]

Local gov't adopts web-savvy interaction

News A is for ADSL Web services are becoming an increasingly important way for citizens to interact with local government and councils are responding with improved websites. The number of visitors to council websites sites increased by more than 10 per...

Tags: socitm, online, web services, local government

[04 Mar 2008]

Ministry of Education Boosts Computer Literacy With Low-Cost Computer Campaign

whitepaper Around 75,000 families across the country invested in low-cost computers with Microsoft software and free ADSL Internet connections. With very few students boasting adequate computer skills, the Ministry of Education wanted to boost IT use in homes...

Tags: windows xp

[29 Feb 2008]

LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking

Comment A is for ADSL A is for ADSL During 2007, LinkedIn doubled in size in all of its major regions including Europe and signed up its millionth UK member in October, making Blighty the largest market outside the US.silicon.com spoke to LinkedIn CEO, Dan...

Tags: linkedin, network, online, facebook

[28 Feb 2008]

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