One of the greatest challenges facing small ISP companies isn’t necessarily the connection to individual customers, but rather the backhaul portion of their network by which their customers are connected to the rest of the Internet. Often, these companies must lease bandwidth from larger companies like AT&T whose infrastructure comprise the backbone of the Internet [...]
Posts Tagged ‘broadband’
Allied Fiber Begins Construction of National Fiber System
May 24th, 2010
Posted in Internet, Technology, Web Technology 
Tags: Allied Fiber, backhaul, broadband, fiber, FTTH, infrastructure, Internet 
1 Comment »If you can get FTTH, consider yourself lucky…
April 15th, 2010
I know a lot of people that want a FTTH (fiber to the home) Internet connection. As they should. While several ISPs continue to milk their existing copper based infrastructure for every last inferior Mbit/sec of bandwidth, the only true way this country is going to achieve a national broadband network capable of supporting the [...]
Posted in Content Delivery, Internet, Technology Tags: broadband, fcc broadband plan, fiber, FTTH, Internet, national broadband plan, Verizon 1 Comment »The FCC’s New US Broadband Plan
March 17th, 2010
If being able to download at 100Mb/s and upload at 50Mb/s is relevant to your interests, then you’ll be eager to learn about the new national broadband plan, released by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission last Tuesday. It is a glimpse into the future of Internet access in the U.S., and there are quite a [...]
Will the U.S. Finally Get Decent Broadband Speeds?
February 16th, 2010
According to an FCC statement released today [pdf], more than 100 million Americans should have access to an at least 100Mbps broadband Internet connection by 2020. Sounds great, right? We’ll all be streaming high definition video over the Internet with enough bandwidth to spare for any social networking or cloud computing needs that may arise within [...]
