Tag Archive for ‘Cisco Systems’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'Cisco Systems'

LIRNEasia’s Mobile Benchmarks (South Asia and Southeast Asia) and Broadband Benchmarks Report for October 2008 has been released. Click HERE for more information.

Japan, Netherlands, Sweden Lead in Broadband Quality, reveals study

Chanuka Wattegama

on September 15, 2008

A recently released survey indicates Japan has the best quality broadband Internet services, with Sweden and the Netherlands completing the top three. Researchers used download/upload speeds, and internet latency when compiling numbers from eight million tests completed in May 2008.

Sweden and the Netherlands were able to be the top European broadband nations because of their efforts in “increasing investments in fiber and cable network upgrades, coupled with competition diversity, and supported by strong government vision and policy.”

Even though it’s difficult to define quality internet, regardless of how questions were reworded, Oxford University Said Business School researchers found Japan remained on top of 41 other nations in the “Broadband Quality Score.” Latvia, Korea, Switzerland, Lithuania, Denmark, Germany and Slovenia are the nations that round out the…

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Tags: Broadband, broadband Internet services, Cisco Systems, consumer internet prices, Denmark, Germany, internet latency, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Oviedo University, Oxford University, Oxford University Said Business School, quality internet, Slovenia, Speedtest.net, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands.

WiFi in the Valley

Rohan Samarajiva

on September 6, 2006

A consortium of technology companies, including I.B.M. and Cisco Systems, announced plans Tuesday for a vast wireless network that would provide free Internet access to big portions of Silicon Valley and the surrounding region as early as next year.

The project is the largest of a new breed of wireless networks being built across the country. They are taking advantage of the falling cost of providing high-speed Internet access over radio waves as opposed to cable or telephone lines.

The project will cover 1,500 square miles in 38 cities in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda and Santa Cruz Counties, an area of 2.4 million residents. Its builders, going by the name Silicon Valley Metro Connect, said the service would provide free basic wireless access at speeds up…

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Tags: Alameda, Broadband, Cisco Systems, free basic wireless access, free Internet access, HIGH-speed Internet access, I.B.M., San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, technology*, telephone lines, USD, wireless access, Wireless Network, wireless networks.

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