Switchfast Blog: The Future of IT
WiMAX & LTE Networks Bringing VoIP into Big Picture
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 by Matt Hymel
With the anticipation of new technology, including Apple's iPad
or Google's internet-providing experiments, network speeds are
becoming more important than ever. Increasing room within broadband
has allowed a magnitude of users to obtain fast upload and download
speeds.
Here in America, most consumers may be content with their
current service. However, around the world, countries continuously
pull ahead of the U.S. in broadband speed and network connection
capabilities.
In fact, the United States only boasts one city (Seattle) in the top 5 of
cities best wired for internet access. The number one on this list,
Seoul, South Korea, has established connections of 100MBps with
plans to improve to 1GBps (10 times faster) by 2012. In America,
Google has recently announced that it will "experiment" with a new
fiber network that would (hopefully) supply 1 GBps connections.
However, Google will not decide on their targeted locations until
late 2010.
According to Gartner analyst Phil Redman, "If
you look at the wired world in the enterprise, voice has mostly
moved to IP already. In terms of wireless, cellular carriers don't
have enough dedicated bandwidth right now to support IP-based
voice. But in future developments of LTE, it will all be over
IP."
Even Clearwire, the company that has taken 4G connections with
WiMAX deep into consumer mainstream, expects to triple their subscribers in 2010 to
a total of 1.2 million.
Although VoIP may be a new term for consumers, it has certainly
become familiar with the enterprise industry. Due to the efficiency
of bandwidth as well as effectively lower costs, voice over
internet protocol (VoIP) is becoming business's solutions to a
unified network communication system. Having phone calls, e-mail,
and online conferences all running via the internet can assist in
cutting back infrastructure costs, no matter the size of the
company.
With speeds up to 1 GBps and a universal movement for VoIP as
the primary communication protocol, enterprise activity will not
only save money to allocate elsewhere but the age of technological
mobility will finally align with mobile internet accessibility and
speed.
Until next time -
Matthew Hymel
Switchfast Technologies
Chicago IT Support &
Consulting
Rochester
IT Support & Consulting
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