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| | internet speeds/Binary prefixes - how fast is my modem / router / usb drive / broadband? - |
 | | For example, 28.8 kilobits per second (Kbps) is 28,800 bits per second. | | | Because of computer architecture and memory address boundaries, Bytes are always some multiple or exponent of two. | | | Data transfer speed is sometimes discussed using Bytes, but this usage is ambiguous and discouraged, as data transfer speeds are measured using "bit-rate" (bits per second). |
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http://www.lyberty.com/encyc/articles/kb_kilobytes.html
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| | Glossary K-L |
| | Kilobit (Kb) - 1) In terms of data transfer, one kilobit per second (Kbps) refers to 1,000 bits of information transferred per second. | | | 2) In relation to data storage, one kilobit is exactly equal to 1,024 bits of stored data. | | | LAN (Local Area Network) - An electronic information network supported by a single resource or server designed to share information with a local group of users. |
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| | Report on Selected Technologies: June 1997 |
| | Some people do seem to be tiring from the updates in computer software and hardware with Windows 97 drawing little more than a yawn from dealers and end-users. | | | He goes on to describe how broad and deep and in a constant state of flux Cyberculture is. If this interests you, you will find it at http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs/. | | | With developing countries attraction to leap frogging technologies and the existing shortage of hi-tech staff it its highly likely that these positions will mushroom in the years to come. |
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| | Super-speed surfing, down under |
| | 16 kilobytes per second is perfectly adequate for a low-traffic personal or small business Web server, and various other applications where you don't expect to have to deal with a lot of simultaneous connections, or send people giant files. | | | There's more lag on top of that, added by all of the routers and other gizmoes that your data goes through. | | | Cable companies keep the performance up by subdividing the network as it gets more heavily populated, and both Telstra and Optus seem to be maintaining reasonable numbers of users per node. |
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| | Glossary Search Results |
| | KDE (K Desktop Environment) - The KDE project was started in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich as a way to bring a more user-friendly GUI experience to UNIX users. | | | Katmai New Instructions (KNI) - This is the original code-name for Intel's SSE instruction set, named after the first Pentium III processor core, code-named "Katmai." | | | KNI (Katmai New Instructions) - This is the original code-name for Intel's SSE instruction set, named after the first Pentium III processor core, code-named "Katmai." |
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| | Kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi, and all that - a Whatis.com definition - see also: kibi, mebi, gibi, pebi, exbi, tebi, ... |
| | We will know that one kilobit per second (1 kbps) means 1,000 bps, and one kibibyte (1 KiB) means 1,024 bytes, for example. | | | In scenarios such as the one mentioned above, if the new binary prefixes are used, it should be easy to know whether an engineer is talking or writing about the decimal or binary multiplier. | | | As if this is not confusing enough, when referring to a data speed of one kilobit per second (1 kbps), analysts generally mean 1,000 bits per second (10 |
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| | Connecting to the Internet |
| | In plain English, that means there is substantial leeway in the interpretation of an analog signal and its subsequent conversion to a finite digital value; and repeated analog to digital conversions will lead to errors. | | | A data-channel (D-channel) is a packet-switched channel capable of 16-kilobits per second (for BRI). |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: DVD Player Fundamentals |
| | Presumably, the writer is confusing kilobit per second and kilobyte per second, but many subsequent calculations of data rates, storage sizes and so on won't stand up either. | | | In fact, the read data rate of a normal CD is more than ten times as much (16 bits times 44.1 kHz times two is already 1.41 Mbit/s, and that excludes al error and medium coding that has to be added). |
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| | WinMag |
| | Measuring bits per second is the traditional way to convey network data- transfer rates. | | | By popular request, I am re-publishing the information given in last week's Broadband Report newsletter in an easier to read table format. | | | but the most popular Web browsers show file download performance in bytes per second. |
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http://www.winmag.com/columns/broadband/2000/03a.htm
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| | Search Results: IEEE Standards Status Report |
| | Project purpose: The purpose of this standard is to define an interconnection of different vendors' relays with different vendors' multiplex equipment, without any restriction on the ocntent of the N times 64 kilobit per second data, using up to 2 kilometer of 50 micrometer or 62.5 micrometer multimode fiber. | | | Abstract: " An optical interface for use between teleprotection and digital multiplexer equipment thatcan operate at a data rate of N times 64 kilobit per second where N = 1, 2...12 is described.Requirements for both physical connection and the communications timing are also included. | | | Project scope: This standard describes the interconnection details for N times 64 kilobit per second connections of teleprotection equipment to digital multiplexers using optical fiber. |
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http://standards.ieee.org/cgi-bin/status?C37.94-2002
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| | One baud is one electronic state change per second. | | | bis refers to a "second version." terbo refers to a "third version.") | | | Modem - A modem modulates outgoing digital signals from a computer or other digital device to analog signals for a conventional copper twisted pair telephone line, and demodulates the incoming analog signal and converts it to a digital signal for the digital device. |
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http://www.tigerdirect.com/images/itemDetails/learnmore/modem-glossary.htm
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| | Terra: NASA's Applied Engineering Competition - Round Two Problems |
| | The ASTER maximum rate of data collection is 90.410 Megabits per second (Mbps). | | | Also, indicate how many minutes will be spent per contact and why? | | | The SSR has the capacity to store up to 169 Gigabits of science data. |
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http://terra.nasa.gov/Events/Competition/round2_problem.html
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| | Delivering multimedia on the Internet - SunWorld - March 1996 |
| | The data rate required for a simulation can vary dramatically depending on the kind of simulator application. | | | The Center for Computation and Visualization of Geometric Structures, at the University of Minnesota may have found one solution with Cyberview, a server application that manipulates 3D models within Web pages. | | | A number of other players delivering streaming audio to computers have since emerged. |
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http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-03-1996/swol-03-multimedia.html
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| | ISA Clouding the picture |
| | For example, a bundled frame relay service customer that has 19 remote locations, each with a 56-kilobit-per-second frame relay port and committed information rate (CIR) at 16 kilobits per second, will pay about $6,000 per month. | | | Most users consider this risk minimal and do not employ any other security enhancements beyond those mentioned. | | | Frame relay cost can also vary depending on the required bandwidth. |
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http://www.isa.org/PrinterTemplate.cfm?Section=Article_Index&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=40230
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| | Phone Lines: The Ties That Bind Us |
| | In the Ameritech service area in Chicago, computer users can lease a low-grade, dedicated line to their Internet service provider for $16 a month. | | | The barrier is only an illusion that can be pierced by simply avoiding the normal switching system. | | | Users have turned their attention to more exotic but less developed carriers like coaxial cable and optical fiber. |
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http://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/surf/1211surf.html
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| | Media Road - Products: SpeedCheck: Support |
| | The meaning of the words kilobyte, megabyte, and gigabyte change when they are used in the context of network data rates. | | | A 100 Mbps hub/switch supports up to 100 Mbps of data being transffered. | | | A rate of one kilobyte per second (KBps) equals 1000 (not 1024) bytes per second; one megabyte per second (MBps) equals one million (106, not 220) bytes per second; one gigabyte per second (GBps) equals one billion (109, not 230) bytes per second. |
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| | Assume that each color component of each pixel will be represented by one of 1024 possible brightness levels (0-1023). | | | How many bytes does it take to store this Powerpoint presentation? | | | How long would it take to transmit it over a telephone network using a modem that operates at a data rate of 19,200 bits per second? |
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http://www.ece.drexel.edu/courses/ECE-S490_TN/midsolmor.doc
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| | kilobits per second from FOLDOC |
| | (kbps, kb/s) A unit of data rate where 1 kb/s = 1000 bits per second. | | | Nearby terms: kilo- « kilobaud « kilobit « kilobits per second » kilobyte » kiloflops » kiosk |
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http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/study/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?kilobits+per+second
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| | Micro Consultants -- Bandwidth for the future...Today! |
| | Bandwidth is also often stated in bits or bytes per second. | | | A data stream of ones and zeroes creates frequency and is never the same as it changes with the data. | | | Second level ISPs usually buy access to backbone providers or first level ISPs. |
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| | WRAL.com - Tech - Swimming Upstream With Uploads |
| | In fact, many could even deliver up to 30 megabits per second per user, if customers were willing to pay for it.Cable uploads, on the other hand, are severely constrained by current technology. | | | For a VoIP conversation in which both parties are simultaneously accessing the Internet over a shared, home-networked connection, even a typical 200 kilobits per second back channel may not suffice. | | | The new cable standard does not require a major infrastructure overhaul, so deployment should begin in early 2005 and the technology should be in wide use by 2007. |
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| | Each pixel data element is composed of three separate colors (red, green, blue) using 2 bytes of data per pixel per color. | | | The required power level at the receiver is 200 kTB; where kT is 4 x 10**-21 Joules, and B is the total bandwidth occupied by the signal. | | | The receiver in the fiber optic link requires a signal energy of 50,000 photons per received pulse in order to produce the desired error rate. |
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http://www.ece.drexel.edu/courses/ECE-S490_TN/hw8.doc
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| | V.FC - FOLDOC Definition |
| | Most of the signal-processing algorithms, whilst based on the same theory, are implemented in different ways. | | | The Rockwell V.FC implementation uses a single-chip mask-programmed DSP for all the signal processing functions. | | | This also gave a lot of people the opportunity to try out 28.8 kilobit per second operation for the first time. |
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http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?V.FC
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| | Internet Terms |
| | From an Internet user's point of view, to upload a file is to send it to another computer. | | | For digital devices, bandwidth is measured in bits per second (bps). | | | A local area network, or LAN, is a group of computers and/or devices that share a common communications line within a small geographic area such as within an office building. |
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| | DGLInfo: U.S. Robotics Ships X2 56 Kilobit per second Modems |
| | U.S. Robotics said the x2 technology is a competitive advantage because USR modems shipped since August 1996 can be converted to x2 technology by a simple software upgrade. | | | U.S. Robotics has begun shipping modems using its proprietary x2 technology which allows Internet connections at 56 kilobits per second over standard telephone lines (about twice as fast as current modems). | | | DGLInfo: U.S. Robotics Ships X2 56 Kilobit per second Modems |
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http://www.dgl.com/dglinfo/1997/dg970224.html
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| | Groundwork: Victory! |
| | It could adopt one of the competing proprietary protocols already in use by an individual vendor, or it could develop and approve a third protocol. | | | A published technical document, outlining the method for communicating at 56 kilobits per second, will soon be available for all modem vendors to implement. | | | Though it was second out of the starting gate, K56Flex soon pulled ahead in the race, becoming the protocol of choice for many key industry players. |
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http://www.usc.edu/isd/pubarchives/networker/97-98/Mar_Apr_98/groundwork-modems.html
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| | > > > I can't think of any networking technology that rates the capacity in 1024 > bits/second = kilobit. | | | > > * Ethernet (100BaseT) is driven by 125Mhz clock and uses 4B/5B encoding > resulting in 100 million bits per second capacity. | | | > > Examples: > > * Ethernet (10BaseT) is driven by 10Mhz (as in 10 million oscillations > per second:) clock, resulting in 10 million bits per second capacity. |
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http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/extract-mesg.cgi?a=netdev&m=2004-02&i=40391364.6090400@tmus.dk
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| | Mirus Capital Advisors, Inc. - MergerEngine Newsletter: January 2000 |
| | Frame relay's (CIR) stands for committed information rate and applies only to permanent virtual circuits (PVC), and has nothing to do with ports. | | | The confidence and experience of second level management will increase morale and the capacity for business growth, as well as the company's value. | | | So, assigning half of the price of $400 per month to the downstream direction and half to the upstream direction, this works out to be about $1.00 per kilobit per second downstream and about $2.00 per kilobit per second upstream per month. |
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| | Digital subscriber controller - Patent 4635255 |
| | The output of operational amplifier 440, amplifier 440a, is connected to the positive input of comparator 437, comparator 437a, respectively, as well as to a voltage-dividor network of series-tied resistors 441 and 442, resistors 441a and 442a, respectively, which produce the output VP/2-, VP/2+, respectively. | | | The second terminals of switches 434, and 434a, are connected to a junction with a first terminal of switch 435, switch 435a, respectively, a terminal of capacitor 436, capacitor 436a respectively, and the negative input of comparator 437, comparator 437a, respectively. | | | A signal.about.PB is applied to the switches 434 and 434a and a signal PBM is applied to operational amplifiers 437 and 437a to effective time-division. |
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http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4635255.html
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| | United States Patent Application: 0050058121 |
| | Another proposed application for UWB communications technology is a low data rate control and sensor data system. | | | This system would be able to carry 4 bits of information per symbol. | | | An ultra-wideband communication device, comprising: a first transceiver structured to communicate at a first data rate; and a second transceiver structured to communicate at a second data rate. |
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| | Bandwidth - Computerworld |
| | Bandwidth refers to the transmission capacity of an electronic-communications line, such as a telephone line, that connects an individual computer to the Internet through a dial-up service provider. | | | Baud refers to how many times the electrical state (voltage or frequency) changes per second, and it was the original unit for measuring telegraph speed. | | | A rate of 1 kilobit per second (1K bit/sec.) means the line can pass 1,000 bits of data each second. |
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http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2000/0,4814,51713,00.html
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| | Visionary Support Knowledge Base .: Bandwidth and cost effectiveness. |
| | Bandwidth a ratio of the amount of data being transferred and the time it takes to transfer that data, and is calculated like this: | | | In many cases higher bandwidth connections cost more bur are more cost efficient per kilobit. | | | That's because your connection is able to handle more data per second. |
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http://www.vcn.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=359
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| | 2.2 Basic Rate ISDN |
| | Basic rate ISDN carries two full-duplex 64 Kilobit per second channels for user data called B-channels and one full-duplex 16 Kilobit per second channel used for signaling called the D-channel. | | | This bus uses 4 wires, two wires for transmit and two wires for receive. |
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| | SunStar Media - Online Utilities - Download Calculator |
| | For example: a 28k8 modem is 28800 bits per second. | | | A generally accepted number is between 10 and 15 seconds per page. | | | Use this calculator to determine the maximum pagesize you should be aiming for. |
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| | Articles - Kilobit per second |
| | A kilobit per second (kbps or kbit/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,000 bits per second. | | | Another unit of data transmission is the kilobyte per second (kB/s or kbyte/s), which is 8 times the size of a kilobit per second: | | | One kilobit per second should not be confused with one kibibit per second: |
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http://www.gaple.com/articles/Kbit/s?mySession=6624916f6f06f33d66ceaab4825ed32d
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| | On the Road to 3G |
| | A pedestrian should have 2 megabits per second, fast enough to download an entire word processing program in 10 to 15 seconds. | | | But many vendors advertise 144 kilobit-per-second rates, even for a stationary user, and say that they meet the ITU specifications. | | | The International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency charged with developing and managing worldwide industry standards, defines levels of performance for 3G networks. |
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| | hoboken co_ location |
| | Each additional One (1) Megabit Per Second will be billed at $160.00/Megabit, in 128 Kilobit Per Second increments. | | | If for example you were billed for 640kbps, you would be charged an additional $20.00 for your additional 128 kilobit usage. |
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http://www.noc4hosts.com/managed_server/hoboken_co__location.html
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| | USB 2 |
| | 1.1, this bus technology could support 127 devices at a bandwidth of 12 (megabits per second) Mbps. | | | Devices, such as scanners and CD burners, require more bandwidth to work at acceptable speeds. | | | Using an 8-bit character set and 500 characters per typewritten page, this serial port could support 5 pages of text per second, which was more than fast enough. |
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| | Personal Technology -- Personal Technology from The Wall Street Journal. |
| | A megabit per second (mbps) connection moves about 1,000 times as much data every second as a kilobit per second (kbps) connection. | | | A service running at 10 megabits per second is more than 13 times as fast as Verizon's base DSL service. | | | For instance, Verizon's entry-level DSL service, at 768 kilobits per second for downloads and 128 kilobits per second for uploads, is considered high-speed here. |
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| | SunWorld Online - October - News |
| | Several competing products support playback of audio in real time on SPARC and other computers. | | | Progressive Networks, based in Seattle, developed RealAudio, which enables "AM quality" audio streams to be played at about 9.6 kilobit per second. | | | It approaches CD quality with speedier networks, and provides viewable television on T1 (1.5 megabits per second) networks. |
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http://sunsite.cs.msu.su/sunworldonline/swol-10-1995/swol-10-xing.html
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| | Metricom Backtracks With Dial-Up Service - 5/7/2001 - Wireless Week - CA74695 |
| | Yankee acknowledges that these characteristics don't fit with how company executives originally positioned Metricom's service, which is packet switched and transmits data at speeds of 128 kbps over unlicensed frequencies in the 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz bands. | | | Yankee defends the company's prices for its enterprise and heavy users, which the company calls "prosumers," but says that Metricom is exploring other pricing scenarios for the consumer market, which it plans to introduce soon. | | | Plus, this slower, dial-up version of the Ricochet service likely will cost customers an additional $9.95 per month. |
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http://www.wirelessweek.com/article/CA74695.html?spacedesc=News&stt=001
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| | Administration |
| | While a megabit bandwidth increases a provider's capacity by 16 times over the one with a 64 kilobit capacity, it increases cost by only four times. | | | A 64-kilobit per second (kbps) bandwidth costs $4,500 (Sh333,000) plus VAT at 15 per cent per month to lease, but the cost falls progressively as a provider's capacity expands. | | | Investigations by Business Week have established that only two of the more than 15 ISPs already operational have bandwidths higher than 64 kilobits per second. |
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| | Free Litespeed |
| | LiteSpeed Plus offers 128 kilobit per second access speed, 5MB of web space, two email addresses, two gigabytes of included throughput per month and unlimited 24x7 technical support. | | | LiteSpeed Plus is available for $24.99 per month with GCI long distance. | | | Customers participating in the free LiteSpeed package will have their activation fee waived, access to one email address and one gigabyte of included throughput per month, 64 kilobit per second access speed and 30 days of free 24x7 technical support. |
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http://www.gci.com/about/press/free_litespeed.htm
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| | I, Cringely . February 6, 1998 - There's no fool like an old fool PBS |
| | The phone companies would be so poor so fast that they'd soon be able only to serve the public -- there's a novel idea. | | | Some of them allow faster downloading than uploading because most Internet users download more dirty pictures than they upload. | | | Unlike ISDN, DSL lines generally don't have per-minute charges and are on all the time -- 24 hours per day seven days per week, which opens up a world of possibilities I'll discuss in a bit. |
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19980206.html
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| | Technology: An alternative to being there |
| | New equipment that is easier to configure should help remedy the reliability problems that have dogged videoconferencing. | | | But the Internet imposes such severe limits on the volume of data it can handle that the rate of image transmission drops from 15 frames per second to one frame every three seconds or so. | | | To lower transmission costs and offer the convenience of connecting anywhere at any time, equipment vendors would like to rely on the Internet. |
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http://www.sptimes.com/News/082701/Technology/An_alternative_to_bei.shtml
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| | Mediacom Communications said Thursday that net income for the second quarter of 2004 was $30.1 million, or $0.25 per share, versus a net loss of $38.2 million ($0.32) in the prior-year period. | | | Use of this web site is subject to its Terms and Conditions of Use. |
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| | Satellite Calling - satellite-based mobile communications |
| | The system will reach nearly anywhere in the world and users will have two-way connections that provide up to 64 megabits per second on the downlink and up to 2 Mbps on the uplink. | | | Existing players also face the specter of new competition from much more powerful satellite-based data networks. | | | Inmarsat charges $3 to $4 per megabit transferred, while Globalstar's data rates top out at 9.6 Kbps and run 15 cents per kilobit-second. |
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| | Antares (P-0005) Analog Modem (P0005) - Find, Compare, and Buy at Shopping.com |
| | The first ‘driverless serial communications controller for SPARC / Solaris systems, the Antares MSE-1 provides a true plug &play installation and compatibility with all higherlevel software such as admintool and SunLink middleware. | | | Antares PCI MSE-1 Global Internal Modem adds two synchronous and asynchronous serial communications ports to your SPARC / Solaris server or workstation, with one built-in 56 kilobit per second V.90 modem. |
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http://www.shopping.com/xPC-P_0005_ANTARES_PCI_56K_MODEM
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