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High
Speed Internet
Broadband is often called high-speed Internet, because it usually has
a high rate of data. In general, any connection to the customer of 256 kbit/s
(0.256 Mbit/s) or more is considered broadband Internet. The International
Telecommunication Union Standardization Sector (ITU-T) recommendation I.113 has defined broadband or
High Speed Internet as a
transmission capacity that is faster than primary rate ISDN, at 1.5 to 2 Mbit/s. The FCC definition of broadband
is 200 kbit/s (0.2 Mbit/s) in one direction, and advanced broadband is at least
200 kbit/s in both directions. The OECD has
defined broadband as 256 kbit/s in at least one direction and this bit rate is
the most common baseline that is marketed as "broadband" around the world. There
is no specific bitrate defined by the
industry, however, and "broadband"
can mean lower-bitrate transmission methods. Some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) use
this to advantage, in marketing lower-bitrate connections as broadband.
Some Internet Service Providers market Broadband
as High Speed Internet.
Eg.
of High Speed Internet Providers:
a) Comcast
high speed internet
b) Road Runner
high speed internet
Broadband Internet access, often shortened to "broadband
Internet" or just "broadband" or
"High Speed Internet" is a high data-transmission rate
internet connection. DSL and cable modem, both popular consumer broadband
technologies, are typically capable of transmitting 512 kilobits per second
(kbit/s) or more, approximately nine times the speed of a modem using a standard digital telephone line.
Broadband Internet access became a rapidly developing market in many areas in
the early 2000s; one study found that
broadband Internet usage in the United States grew from 6% in June 2000 to over 30% in 2003.[1] Modern
consumer broadband implementations, up to 20 Mbit/s, are several hundred times
faster than those available at the time of the birth of the internet (such as ISDN and 56 kbit/s) while costing less than ISDN and sometimes
no more than 56 kbit/s; though performance and costs vary widely between
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