Broadband Definition

Definition of Broadband:

Nowadays internet plays vital roll for all kind of aspects, Broadband, as a word, is becoming slipperier and perhaps less meaningful every day.
Increasingly over the next few years, the term is likely to refer to such a diverse range of offerings that any two people with “broadband” could have vastly different experiences.
As network technology evolves, broadband users will be divided not just by different tiers of speed and disparate media -- the haves and have nots segmenting into those with fiber, souped-up DSL, cable modem, WiMAX, etc. -- but by service quality features specific to each individual’s preferences.

The latest version of Alcatel-Lucent’s triple-play platform, which will be on display at NXTcomm08, includes more granular subscriber management and service quality features to allow consumers to, as the vendor put it, “choose the quality of experience they want, for the content they care about and at a price they are prepared to pay.”

Not only can discerning broadband users opt for a higher tier of speed, they can pay more for a higher quality of experience -- if they’re gamers, for example, or if they want to watch a lot of high-quality video over the Internet. The system allows not only users to pay for better service quality but content owners as well. And it is granular enough to be applied to a single piece of content.

A new equipment vendor and NXTcomm08 exhibitor, Zeugma Systems, is targeting similar capabilities.
Meanwhile, the line between telco and cable broadband is even blurring, as some providers combine the two to raise bandwidth speeds for business customers. Out in the Pacific Northwest, a small handful of ISPs have begun to sell telco DSL lines bonded with cable modem lines. One provider is even offering VoIP over the bonded lines, to ensure reliability (if one line goes down, the service doesn’t).

Over time, broadband pricing will be based more on consumption, putting further distance between different user types. In that environment, “broadband” providers will do whatever they can to loosen bottlenecks in the last mile. And users with vastly different speeds will have such widely differing experiences that it will no doubt seem odd in some cases to use the same word to describe them.

The FCC has been taken to task a lot over the years, and rightly so, for defining broadband as 200 kilobits per second or faster. And that embarrassment has often been cited amid calls for a nationwide broadband policy. But going forward, broadband is going to become harder to define. And with an increasing array of diversity under the umbrella that is broadband, anyone hoping to author a federal policy to dramatically increase broadband’s availability is going to have a heck of a time establishing just what it is they want to be available.

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