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Bringing on broadband!
New Hampshire has completed a $63 million project to provide critical broadband delivery infrastructure.
Fiber Installation image courtesy of Network NH Now
Funded by $44 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration plus private funds and donations, the Network New Hampshire Now project blends a high-capacity optical fiber network with modernized microwave communications facilities to create an extremely robust communications infrastructure that makes the state a leader on the national... Read More
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Resources for broadband knowledge
Looking for available intelligence on broadband? We’ve sifted through a good share of what’s out there to offer up these resources.
U.S. adoption and deployment
Broadband.gov. Provides updates and resources pertaining to objectives of the U.S. National Broadband Plan, the 2009 blueprint for ensuring access to broadband for all U.S. citizens.
Broadband USA is the web portal maintained by the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications & Information Administration to... Read More
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What Is the Internet of Things? An Economic Perspective
January, 2012
I was always skeptical about the buzzword Web 2.0 - at least, it seemed like nothing more than a buzzword to me, until I read the paper from O`Reilly titled What is Web 2.0? (O'Reilly, 2005). Until then, I thought of Web 2.0 as a collection of a few fuzzy concepts some people gave a new name, just to plant a new tree in an already crowded Internet garden in order to attract unjustified attention. However, after reading the paper and understanding the concepts of user participation and service orientation more deeply, I became a convert. To me, the term Web 2.0 now provides a natural and... Read More
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Between Markets and Mandates: Approaches to Promoting Broadband Access for Persons with Disabilities
November, 2012
The U.S. Census Bureau (2010), in its most recently available American Community Survey, reports that 36.4 million Americans, or an estimated 11.9% of the civilian non-institutionalized population of the United States, experience some form of diagnosed disability including difficulties related to vision, hearing, mobility, self-care, or cognition. Individuals are affected not only by congenital disabilities, but also by those that emerge over the course of a lifetime due to accident, illness, and the normal course of aging. Indeed, age-related disability is a fate awaiting many, with more... Read More
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The Need for Speed: The Importance of Next Generation Broadband
March, 2012
Digital Equipment Corporation CEO Ken Olsen famously commented in 1977 that, “No one will ever want a computer in their home,”1 setting off a long-standing trend in the history of information technology of underestimating consumer demand for faster computers with improved processing speeds, memory, and disk storage capacity.
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The State of the Internet
March, 2013
Over the last several years, Akamai has worked to provide additional insight, beyond the State of the Internet Report, into what is happening on our Intelligent Platform through data visualization tools. The tools available at www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet endeavor to provide users with customized views of current and historical data from the report, while others at www.akamai.com/ipv6 and www.akamai.com/html/technology/... Read More
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Home Broadband 2013
August, 2013
This report is based on the findings of a survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International from April 17 to May 19, 2013, among a sample of 2,252 adults, age 18 and older.
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Digital Nation Expanding Internet Usage
February, 2012
“This isn’t just about faster Internet or fewer dropped calls. It’s about connecting every part of America to the digital age. It’s about a rural community in Iowa or Alabama where farmers and small business owners will be able to sell their products all over the world. It’s about a firefighter who can download the design of a burning building onto a handheld device; a student who can take classes with a digital textbook; or a patient who can have face-to-face video chats with her doctor... Read More
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The Whole Picture: Where America's Broadband Networks Really Stand
February, 2013
Taking the whole picture into account, this report finds that the United States has made rapid progress in broadband deployment, performance, and price, as well as adoption when measured as computer-owning households that subscribe to broadband.
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Broadband 2020: Achieving Ubiquity
Broadband is progressing, but there's significant work yet to accomplish. Here's how to get there.
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Rouzbeh Yassini, Ph.D.
Realizing broadband's full potential requires solving obstacles revolving around availability, adoption, affordability, performance, utilization, ease of use and services. This BCoE white paper describes these potential impediments in detail, offers solutions for each, and describes some of the forward-thinking applications these solutions will inspire.
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