Thus, besides its enormous transport capacity, today's access infrastructure should bring operational efficiencies ... (CO) and then deploying wireless mesh near end user premises is a cost-effective solution for future access networks.
This timely volume not only examines the traditional questions about broadband, like availability and access, but also explores and evaluates new metrics more applicable to the evolving technologies of information access.
Tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find report.
Peoples without running water are demanding access to the internet and those without it are becoming deprived citizens. This new book examines current issues of interest to the blossoming area.
Recasting the "problem of the last 100 feet" as "the opportunity of the first 100 feet," this book challenges individuals, businesses, and policymakers to rethink fundamental issues in telecommunications policy.
One important subset of the digital divide debate concerns high-speed Internet access and advanced telecommunications services, also known as broadband.
Broadband Access in Rural Areas: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight and Subcommittee on Rural Enterprises, Agriculture,...
This asymmetric regulation is the focus of this volume, in which telecommunications scholars address the public policy issues that have arisen over the deployment of new high-speed telecommunications services.
Thirdly, the work reported in this book in many respects was a major pioneering effort, which quite ambitiously aimed at modelling the whole life-cycle costs and revenue streams of access network upgrades, as opposed to several other ...
Demand for high-speed data transmission couldn't be more intense, with an exponentially growing curve of Internet users wearying of the "World Wide Wait" and dreaming of downloaded movies, music, multimedia,...