Thomas Kunz
Systems and Computer Engineering
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Why Broadband?
The future is about rich multimedia services
and information exchange
…possible only with wide-scale availability of broadband
Internet access
but…
Many people are still without broadband
service
–Up
to 30% of America (32 million homes) cannot get broadband service (rural areas, older neighbourhoods, poor
neighbourhoods)
–A
large majority of the developing world does not have broadband connectivity
–It
is not economically feasible to provide wired connectivity to these customers