Telecommunications Essentials

Chapter 13. Broadband Access Solutions

Broadband access options are very important—they very well may determine how well you're able to grow professionally and personally. The main drivers toward broadband are users' desires to find information that is valuable to them, to be connected, and to experience the multimedia spectacle of the Web.

The global broadband market is predicted to be worth US$580 billion by 2010. In general, the view is that households and small- and medium-size enterprises—rather than the traditional corporate customers—will account for most of that market. Increased economic growth and greater dependence on high-speed networks will lead to higher demand in Europe than in the United States by 2005 and in Asia by 2010. Estimates ...