bandwidth

Virgin to boost broadband bandwidth

News As Web users' thirst for bandwidth soars, cable broadband purveyor The trend for online video content and popular bandwidth-heavy apps -- such as the BBC's iPlayer -- has led to concerns among ISPs their infrastructure will soon be creaking under...

Tags: optical, kit, bandwidth, trial

12 May 2008, 9:14

New Wi-Fi chips embedded in Samsung laptops

News Samsung is embedding chips from start-up company Airgo Networks that use a technology called multiple-input multiple-output, or MIMO, to increase bandwidth, speed and range of wireless networks. It's a testament to the fact that people are fed up...

1 June 2005, 10:31

BBC backs 'Broadband Charter' for ISPs

News BBC tech chief Ashley Highfield has hit back at Internet service providers who want online organisations to pay extra for distributing bandwidth-intensive video and multimedia content. This could include the term 'unlimited broadband' meaning...

Tags: bandwidth, broadband, providers, bbc

7 April 2008, 9:42

Streaming video too fat for 3G phone networks

News This isn't a big deal when users are chatting on the phone, sending text messages or downloading ring tones, because those applications use up relatively low amounts of bandwidth. But video eats up roughly ten times more bandwidth.

4 October 2005, 11:45

Is the mobile TV capacity problem solved?

News Earlier this week, IPWireless, which makes chips and wireless equipment for the mobile phone industry, announced the technology, called TDtv, claiming it provides enough capacity over the existing 3G spectrum so that mobile carriers won't have to...

23 January 2006, 11:31

Unlimited broadband may 'disappear'

News Speaking to CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet.co.uk, Armstrong said that the iPlayer service had "gone from zero per cent of [UK traffic] to five per cent in two months", and this explosion in high-bandwidth usage meant ISPs would have to either...

Tags: bandwidth, traffic, unlimited, consumer

17 March 2008, 9:13

Net video not ready for hi-def TV

News Laszlo added that even if bandwidth were to be increased, computers with lower graphics processing power may be unable to display the richer details that HD provides. In fact, every industry expert interviewed for this story said that the way...

10 April 2006, 9:49

Virgin Trains may opt for WiMax

News The key things with WiMax are bandwidth and latency," Lowden said on Thursday. Because we've been running networks on trains for a number of years now we can see the real life growth in demand for bandwidth as the appetite of the users increases...

22 September 2006, 10:21

New network dedicated to virtual reality

News The Neuronet's communication bandwidth and real-time virtual-reality and gaming data transfer protocols will enable.virtual-reality trailblazers to reach their full potential," the group said. Companies or individuals must pay for network bandwidth...

2 January 2007, 9:36

AT&T: Net to hit full capacity by 2010

News Everything will become HD very soon and HD is seven to 10 times more bandwidth-hungry than typical video today. The BBC has come under fire from service providers, such as Tiscali, which claim that its iPlayer online-TV service is becoming a major...

Tags: traffic, bandwidth, speech, broadband

21 April 2008, 9:10

iTunes' top competitor is P2P, says Apple

News Cue believes that the next generation of music buyers will not know music as anything other than "digital bandwidth". They certainly do not know music as a record or as a CD -- they know it as digital bandwidth," said Cue.

26 October 2005, 9:27

File-swapping TV's reception becomes clearer

News Thus, every viewer can potentially help distribute part or all of a file to others, sharing the bandwidth burden among a large number of people instead of forcing the original programmer to pay the full cost.

9 August 2005, 9:34

UK networks 'only interested in selling'

News The approach taken by US operators was far superior, said Dobson, pointing to Sprint's recent decision to invest $3bn in overlaying WiMax on top of its EV-DO network (a version of 3G) so it could provide high-bandwidth services such as mobile TV.

8 December 2006, 9:37

Computing grid unlocks secrets of space

News Network bandwidth will also be key -- at the moment it has a 2Gbps dedicated link to CERN -- the same amount of bandwidth RAL uses for all the rest of its internet traffic, and the plan is to build a dedicated fibre-optic network between the sites.

25 November 2005, 9:48

Broadband down your gas pipe?

News Citywide Wi-Fi and WiMax don't offer the kinds of bandwidth needed to deliver high-capacity applications like high-definition television. Because the lines are underground, more powerful transmitters can be used, which ramps up bandwidth to 100Mbps...

14 November 2005, 9:18