With a fast broadband access we are supposed to be able to shop, read news, send e-mails, listen to radio and watch movies or TV-shows – all through one plug in the wall. The capacity of today’s global telephony and data networks is growing rapidly.
During the first years the twenty-first century, the bandwidth in fibre optical networks will increase tenfold by the year. Bandwidth development is made in a pace doubled the development of processing power of network nodes. Accordingly, broadband is no longer just a matter of bandwidth.
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