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Online porn could soon be delivered to our customers at internet speeds that are 1,600% faster than today's connections.

Article in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...eed-usat_x.htm

Tomorrow's Net speeds could be up to 1,600% faster
By David Lieberman, USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO ? If you think that today's high-speed Internet connections are fast, wait till you see what cable operators plan.

The industry's standard-settings unit, CableLabs, plans to endorse this month technology that will let operators boost speeds 400% to 1,600%, over their existing lines.

Motorola and Cisco are among the companies offering alternative methods to increase broadband speeds by linking together the bandwidth used for four or more conventional TV channels.

What would the faster speed bring?

"The sky's the limit," says CableLabs CEO Dick Green. "There are a lot of high-data-rate services lurking out there ? including a lot that we haven't even thought of."

While cable operators now usually transmit broadband at 3 million bits per second (3MB), a download of "a billion bits per second is completely doable," Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told the industry's annual convention here this week. "The network could do this quite easily."

That could dramatically affect how people use the Internet when the new modems to handle the speeds arrive, which is expected to be in 2008.

"This will change our lives well beyond entertainment," says Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers. For example, when speeds allow quick sending of detailed images. such as X-rays, he says, "You'll do the majority of your health care straight from the home."

Others envision a host of other applications. For example, businesses could easily arrange video conferences with high-definition TV. Consumers could download an entire HD movie in about five minutes vs. today's 22 minutes.

And, "There will be a need for higher speeds as games become more graphics-intensive," says Adelphia Chief Technical Officer Marwan Fawaz.

Hospitals and schools also may be among the first to take advantage of the additional transmission capacity, which is expected to cost more than current high-speed Internet services.

Operators want to get moving to keep ahead of phone companies, led by Verizon, that are building communications systems with more fiber-optic lines ? and therefore more transmission capacity ? than cable.

"There'll be a speed arms race," says RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser.

But the new cable standard, known as DOCSIS 3.0, also will make it easier for operators to handle other chores.

"I could take a cell phone and program my digital video recorder," says Richard Doherty, who is with The Envisioneering Group. "Quality of service is a big part of it."

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kuthi123

fuck my provider still gives 20 to 30 kbbs

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Project-Shadow

This can be seen as a good thing or a bad thing.. until server provides can provide us with affordable bandwidth that can handle this kind of beating, then it's really pointless. How many servers do you know that could handle that kind of speeds.. not from one person, but from everyone? =/

crackerboy

sitting on a 24 mbit line its rocking

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CashLikeWhoa_Mike

that's what I was wondering -- is too much speed good or bad for the online porn biz?

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V_RocKs

Going to be a lot longer than they are telling you...

Jon2

This will bring hosting pricing down as well

Jon

CashLikeWhoa_Mike

if this new technology can drive hosting prices down, then I hope it arrives next week

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MickeyG

sounds great bring it on, the sooner the better!

SinisterStudios

Damn now thats fast, and i thought my 10 meg line in my office was fast

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