4. Categories

      Key Topics: Applications, Business Models, IP Telephony, Marketing, Mobility, Unified communications

  6. Quotes about Gbps

    1. “ We continue to explore technologies that will allow Verizon to further evolve our FiOS network toward the functionality and speed the market will require, As an example, it would take a customer less than three minutes to download a 20 gigabyte, Blu-ray movie over a 1 Gbps link, as opposed to close to four and a half hours over a 10 Mbps Internet connection.  A business customer using this service could backup data on an online server every night in just a few minutes, as opposed to hours. ”
      Mark Wegleitner in Verizon Tests 10 Gb/s Over FiOS
    2. “ We continue to explore technologies that will allow Verizon to further evolve our FiOS network toward the functionality and speed the market will require. As an example, it would take a customer less than three minutes to download a 20 gigabyte, Blu-ray movie over a 1 Gbps link, as opposed to close to four and a half hours over a 10 Mbps Internet connection. A business customer using this service could backup data on an online server every night in just a few minutes, as opposed to hours. As we've said before, the fiber itself is passive; it's what we do with the electronics that will leverage its capacity. ”
      Mark Wegleitner in Second Field Trial Demonstrates FiOS' Capability to Accommodate All Emerging Video Services

  1. Gbps

    0 Comments Leave a Comment

    1-15 of 36 // 1 2 3 »

    1. Mentioned In 36 Articles

    2. FTTH Demand Might be the Issue, Which is Why Supply is an Issue

      Explore Thoughts on Carrier Evolution (May 10 2012) Applications , Marketing

      Comment "The consumer only has a limited budget of disposable income!! Naturally the consumer would like the highest "symmetrical" speeds in ..." - dwillson

      ...t 100 Mbps for about $40 a month, and includes a home phone line with unlimited national calls. A 1 Gbps service costs about $70 per month. By way of contrast, in the markets where it operates, Comcast of... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Comcast   Gbps

    3. Google Gets a TV Broadcast License - So They Can Offer IPTV Over 1 Gbps in Kansas City

      Explore dslreports.com (Mar 7 2012) Applications

      Google's 1 Gbps residential fiber service is officially underway in Kansas City, with consumers expected to be up a... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Karl Bode   Gbps

    4. Hi, I am a big dumb fat pipe & I am okay with that

      Explore GigaOM (Feb 20 2012) Applications

      ...y and embracing all sorts of over-the-top services running on top of it. The company that sells a 1 Gbps connection for $20 a month is happy admitting to the world that they are selling a “big dumb fat pi... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   British Telecom   AT&T   Om Malik

    5. BT Promises 300 Mbps Broadband By 2013 After Cornwall Trial Success

      Explore techweekeurope.co.uk (Feb 3 2012) Applications

      BT Promises 300 Mbps Broadband By 2013 After Cornwall Trial Success ...ers a speed of 110 Mbps, and is due this year to support 330 Mbps, with further trials planned of 1 Gbps. FTTP services have been limited geographically in BT’s fibre-to the-premise trials, but BT is n... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Fttc   Gbps   Fttp

    6. How Much Will Consumers and Business Pay for Really-Fast Broadband?

      Explore IP Carrier (Nov 12 2011) Applications

      How Much Will Consumers and Business Pay for Really-Fast Broadband? ...antial numbers of businesses or consumers are willing to pay for 50 Mbps, 100 Mbps or potentially 1 Gbps service.  It might be a different story is the cost of such service were no more than what consu... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   European Commission   Julius Genachowski   Gbps

    7. How Much Small Business Demand for Really-Fast Broadband?

      Explore Thoughts on Carrier Evolution (Nov 12 2011)

      ... 100 Mbps, they are even more hesitant to spend more for an extremely fast Internet connection of 1 Gbps. This is especially true for prices that are 40 percent or more higher than their current prices.If... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gbps   Small Business Administration

    8. Google considers building fiber network in Europe

      Explore IP Carrier (Oct 24 2011) Applications

      ...Wi-Fi and now the fiber to the home network in Kansas City, the effort is to sway policy debates. 1 Gbps test Google believes rightly that its own business benefits from ubiquitous and capacious broadban... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Gbps   David Drummond

    9. Google to Build FTTH in Europe?

      Explore Thoughts on Carrier Evolution (Oct 24 2011) Applications

      ...Wi-Fi and now the fiber to the home network in Kansas City, the effort is to sway policy debates. 1 Gbps test Google believes rightly that its own business benefits from ubiquitous and capacious broadb... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Gbps   David Drummond

    10. Faster Speeds, Greater Consumption

      Explore IP Carrier (Oct 6 2011) Marketing

      ...u can make your own guesses about what user behavior might be if services at 50 Mbps, 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps are made available.Suddenlink Goes Live With Metered Broadband Faster Speeds, Greater Consumption I... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gbps

    11. BT Openreach to launch 300 Mbps FTTP broadband service in 2012

      Explore FierceTelecom (Oct 6 2011) Marketing

      BT Openreach to launch 300 Mbps FTTP broadband service in 2012 ...enfield development in Ebbsfleet. BT said the GPON technology it's using can also deliver up to 1 Gbps speeds that it is trialing in Kesgrave, Suffolk. Interestingly, the incumbent provider's FTTP ann... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   European Union   Sprint Nextel   Gpon

    12. Google: Regulatory reform will drive more broadband deployments

      Explore FierceTelecom (Sep 28 2011)

      ...n't work because they don't have the speeds." For its part, Google's Fiber Project will provide 1 Gbps speeds beginning in Kansas City, Mo. and Kansas City, Kan. in addition to a pilot Fiber to the Home... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Cnet   Gbps

    13. What Will "Typical" Consumer Bandwidth Be in 2020?

      Explore Razorsight (Sep 28 2011)

      What Will "Typical" Consumer Bandwidth Be in 2020? ...akers, policy advocates and many bandwidth-dependent interests are calling for either 100-Mbps or 1-Gbps Internet access as a "standard" U.S. reality by 2020 or so. Some will doubt that is feasible. But s... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gary Kim   Gbps   University of Colorado

    14. Gig U Wants You for 1 Gbps Broadband

      Explore Telecompetitor (Sep 19 2011)

      Gig U Wants You for 1 Gbps Broadband Chattanooga and Kansas City may have gotten all of the headlines about delivering 1 Gbps broadband service to individual customers. But a small test network deployed by Case Western Reserv... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Blair Levin   Gbps   RFI

    15. U.K. Policymakers Worried About Slow Pace of "Super-Fast" Broadband

      Explore Thoughts on Carrier Evolution (Sep 16 2011)

      ...oviders are not complaining about "too much end user demand" for services ranging from 50 Mbps to 1 Gbps, to put it mildly.    Where governments are willing to bear the risk, those governments can push ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Gbps   Jeremy Hunt

    16. Google's FTTH pilot inspires developers to come up with bandwidth hungry apps

      Explore FierceTelecom (Sep 6 2011)

      While it might be hard to imagine how consumers could use 1 Gbps worth of broadband from Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) upcoming Fiber to the Home (FTTH) build in Kansas C... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Gbps   Ftth

    17. 1-15 of 36 // 1 2 3 »