At home, Japanese access the Web at 1 gigabits per second
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Japan keeps pushing hard to become the world premier broadband country. Lately, Motorola was announced to deploy a WiMax network covering Tokyo. Now, a reporter of Network World says that both ISPs Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. could provide a 1 gigabits per second fiber-optic Internet access to residential buildings for just $36 per month. An insanely big(!) bandwidth, that allow everyone to go fully digital.
Japan joins Hong-Kong and France in the highly selective group of big bandwidth country. The French domination is huge in this field. And, although higher-speed access is expensive ($90), France Telecom (Orange) is expected to introduce some 2.5Gbps home Internet service by 2007.
But in the same time, let’s go down to earth a bit. In France or in Japan, the explosion of bandwidth also brings some problems.
All of this cheap bandwidth is not without it’s problems for the companies providing it. The country’s Internet backbone is starting to feel the strain of all these broadband connections. Peak traffic on the major domestic Internet exchanges was hitting 158Gbps at the end of last year, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications. That’s about a third higher than the end of 2004 and about double 2003.
Calling an emergency phone number using VoIP telephony still remains on top of the todo list.
It’s easier to make people dream of a digital world than dishing efficient and compliant services. Hope this going to change soon.
Aug 13, 2006 | By Nuno
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