Residential Broadband, Second Edition

Summary

Consumers worldwide have high utilization of telephone and television services over existing telephone, over-the-air, and cable networks. For the most part, the services are of acceptable quality with a reasonable price.

To justify the multibillion-dollar rollout of residential broadband services to the home, new services will be required to stimulate consumers or advertisers to underwrite the costs. Table 1-9 summarizes the market drivers that are fulfilling or may fulfill this role.

Residential broadband is interesting work, which is not the least of the reasons why it is evolving and attracting top-flight talent in entertainment and engineering. The next chapter overviews the engineering challenges and technical foundations of RBB, ...