fat pipes
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News Comparatively sluggish fat pipes are damaging UK Plc, according to comms industry organisation, the Communications Management Association (CMA) - part of the British Computer Society. Speaking at a conference hosted by UK trade association for... [04 Jul 2008]
Ultra fat pipes to squeeze through Dundee's sewers
News Dundee has been selected as the first Scottish 'Fibrecity' - meaning 100Mbps-plus broadband connectivity will be speeding out of fibre-optic-stuffed sewers and into every home, business and organisation in the city as soon as next year. [18 Jun 2008]
Next gen broadband benefits outweigh cost
News Widespread deployment of next-generation broadband - which is significantly faster than current fat pipes - is critical for the UK economy, according to government advisory body the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG). [09 Jun 2008]
Broadband pace lagging in the countryside
News A broadband speed report by UK fat pipe watcher and advice website thinkbroadband claims the countryside still lags some way behind urban areas - contrary to last week's Ofcom report hailing the end of a geographical digital divide in the UK for... [04 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.05.08
Round-Up Recently, silicon.com reported that take-up of broadband in rural communities had overtaken that in urban areas for the first time. Little did we expect the outpouring of rural scorn that would result. [30 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Rural v City fat pipe row and ID cards
Comment Readers are up in arms over Ofcom claims that the 'digital divide' actually favours rural dwellers - with many disputing the so-called countryside speedy fat pipes. Rural fat pipes fat lie? Rural fat pipe claims - "beggars belief" [29 May 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment In the UK, poverty is predominantly an urban issue - so looked at from that perspective the Ofcom state-of-the-broadband-nation report suggests high speed internet access might actually be exacerbating the digital divide - as relatively well-off... [23 May 2008]
Europe embracing speedy fat pipes
News 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 speed broadband... [18 Apr 2008]
Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain
News Mary Turner: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation… Fibre could be laid through the UK's sewer ducts to help speed up the rollout of super fast broadband to homes and businesses across the country. Telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched a review into... [16 Apr 2008]
Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide
News 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. Here are five weird and wonderful alternatives to getting a fat pipe fix. [06 Mar 2008]
Broadband Britain cheaper and faster than ever
News Broadband Britain has never had it so good with fat pipes cheaper and faster than ever. But other companies are also looking at boosting the UK's fat pipes by laying fibre cabling in sewers - which could realise connection speeds of up to 100Mbps. [01 Feb 2008]
Brits suffering fat pipe rage
News Firing up fat pipes is inducing techno-rage in many UK broadband customers, according to a survey commissioned by O2 Broadband. Speed tops the list of fat pipe frustrations, with nearly a quarter of respondents saying sluggish connections are the... [25 Jan 2008]
Using QoS for High Throughput TCP Transport Over Fat Long Pipes
White Paper A very practical network problem for the effective deployment of a transatlantic computational GRID which is the current under-utilisation of the newly available fat long pipes drives the following work towards the investigation of whether new TCP... [14 Jan 2008]
Super-speed broadband heads to Kent
News Instead of laying traditional copper cabling to the buildings planned for the 1,000 acre development area in Ebbsfleet Valley, Kent, the telco will put in fibre cabling which can support data speeds of up to 100Mbps - aka very fat pipes indeed. [10 Jan 2008]
On the Joint Use of New TCP Proposals and IP-QOS on High Bandwidth-RTT Product Paths
White Paper A very practical network problem for the effective deployment of a transatlantic computational GRID which is the current under-utilisation of the newly available fat long pipes drives the following work towards the investigation of whether new TCP... [20 Dec 2007]
