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Broadband
Internet architecture and infrastructure have come a long way since the copper wire dial-up modem. A wave of cable and ADSL has infiltrated most of the world, penetrating into all but the most rural areas in which satellite remains one of the only viable options for getting online. As Comcast Business Class (2012) points out, "Optical fiber has long been in use providing the major long distance wiring that makes up the backbone of the Internet." Although Comcast Business Class (2012) has a vested interest in promoting the use of optical fiber infrastructure, the company's observations are correct. Bandwidth consumption has risen not just due to the growing numbers of consumers around the world demanding content, but also because of the content itself. High -- definition multimedia and other large size file transfers are increasing user bandwidth needs. So too is the potential that cloud computing has opened up for individual and enterprise consumers. Added to that is the growing interest in bandwidth-demanding services from gaming to communications....
Optical fiber options remain the most potent solution to growing bandwidth needs.
In addition to fiber optics solutions, a new wave of wireless broadband solutions have become available for many consumers. Among the most common wireless solutions are 3G, 4G, and WiMAX (Lin, Dielacher, Zhan & Payne, 2011). However, the former two are not necessarily capable of handling the type of traffic that hard-wired broadband solutions provide (Comcast Business Class, 2012). Optical fiber solutions remain the most viable; consumers can take advantage of optical "fiber to the home" (FTTH) solutions.
The advent and increasing popularity of fiber to the home does not preclude wireless options from being viable in many situations. In fact, there is increasing pressure on wireless 3G, 4G, and WiMAX providers to expand their capacity for greater bandwidth as more and more people are accessing data via portable devices such as tablets and smartphones. A convergence of data streams is occurring, in which voice, video, image, document, email,…
References
Comcast Business Class (2012). What are the next big trends in broadband? VB. Retrieved online: http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/15/the-next-big-trends-in-broadband/
Lin, J., Dielacher, F., Zhan, J.C. & Payne, R. EP1: Good, bad, ugly -- 20 years of broadband evolution: What's next? Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2011 IEEE International. Retrieved online: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5746419&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D5746419
Paul, S. (2011). Digital Video Distribution in Broadband, Television, Mobile and Converged Networks: Trends, Challenges and Solutions. John Wiley & Sons.
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