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The term broadband refers to the wide bandwidth characteristics of a transmission medium and its ability to transport multiple signals and traffic types simultaneously. The medium can be coax, optical fiber, twisted pair or wireless. In contrast, baseband, describes a communication system in which information is transported across a single channel.
Prior to the invention of home broadband, dial-up Internet access was the only means by which one could access the Internet and download fil...

YouTube Accounts for 13 Percent of All Mobile Data Usage

The chances are very good that, like a growing number of people, you have a smart phone. With the rise of the iPhone and Android, there has been an explosion in the adoption of Internet-ready mobile devices. I knew we'd reached a bit of a ...

Mobile Video To Double Up, Reach $1.34B By 2014

Remember some time back when Mark talked about the expectation that mobile video consumption would see some 500% growth by 2013? That should be roughly 56 exabytes per month, can you put a price on that Twinkie? We can! eMarketer predicts that we'll see a ...

Online Video Streaming Reaches Into Rural Markets

Those purveyors of numbers and panel research, comScore, have another report, this time showing how regional ISPs are boosting bandwidth in rural markets. So that means when people aren't out tilling the fields, they're in the house online? It would seem so. The growth numbers ...

Video To Push Monthly Internet Consumption To 15Tb Per User

Last week, Cisco introduced a super-fast new router, CRS 3 that will increase throughput up to 322 Terabits (purportedly the whole US Library of Congress), in a second. Suraj Shetty, VP Worldwide Service Provider Marketing for Cisco, told Daisy Whitney that the average user in ...

Nearly A Million Americans Have Ditched Cable for Online TV

It's fun to speculate about the shift from television viewing to Internet. When will it happen? How long before there are more people watching online than on television? There's typically a lot of speculation in articles like these. Heck, I'm guilty of it myself on ...

An Exabyte A Month of Video Viewing? Sooner Than You Think!

I know, you're asking what the hell an exabyte (EB) is aren't you? Well it's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes - a quintillion, 1018, a billion gigabytes, a...well you get the picture. Yes, quintillion is a word (the US/UK version not the other one). When? Delve into the ...

How Rapid Growth In Mobile Technology and HTML 5 Will Impact Video

Michael Boland, Program Director of Mobile Local Media at the Kelsey Group, speaks with us at SES San Jose 2009 about how rapid growth in mobile technology and html5 will impact video in the future.

The Dark Side of Online Video?

Just as there are white hat and black hat hackers, SEO companies and just about everything else in the world, there is also black hat online video...the so-called pirates. But where is the line drawn between legal and illegal video and where is the line ...