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This is a list of countries by Internet connection speed for average and median data transfer rates for Internet access by end-users. The difference between average and median speeds is the way individual measurements are aggregated.
Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan is a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plan to improve Internet access in the United States. The FCC was directed to create the plan by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 , and unveiled its plan on March 16, 2010.
First generation broadband provided a boost to GDP of some 0.5%–1.0% a year. In recent months the UK has seen an energetic, market-led roll-out of next generation fixed broadband. By this Summer [2009] speeds of 50 Mbps and above will be available to all households covered by the Virgin Media Ltd's national cable network: some 50% of UK homes.
An NBN FTTN (fibre to the node) cabinet during installation. The National Broadband Network (NBN) is Australia’s national wholesale open-access data network. It includes wired and radio communication components rolled out and operated by NBN Co, a government-owned corporation.
VDSL2 is an enhancement to VDSL designed to support the wide deployment of triple play services such as voice, video, data and high-definition television (HDTV) VDSL2 is intended to enable operators and carriers to gradually, flexibly, and cost-efficiently upgrade existing xDSL infrastructure.
OC-3c (c stands for "concatenated") concatenates three STS-1 (OC-1) frames into a single OC-3 look alike stream. The three STS-1 (OC-1) streams interleave with each other so that the first column is from the first stream, the second column is from the second stream, and the third is from the third stream.
NBN Co released its business plan on 20 December 2010, including forecasts and network design. [41] Changes to the Business plan included an increase in the peak speed to one gigabit per second, [39] in response to Google Fiber [40] and giving 'priority' to regional and rural areas during the rollout following the events after the 2010 election.
The goals of the plan as described on Broadband.gov are: [123] At least 100 million U.S. homes should have affordable access to actual download speeds of at least 100 megabits per second and actual upload speeds of at least 50 megabits per second by the year 2020.