As you can see in the chart, most people don’t have a High Speed Broadband connection at home. One of the reason is, it is to expensive. For just a basic user of internet, we don’t higly recommend to have a High Speed Broadband unless you are a rich person. High Speed Internet Broadband is suitable for hardcore games, heavy downloaders and for people that can afford it. As for the one that still don’t know what it is, we will do our best to explain further on.
Now, we are going to explain to you about subscribing high speed broadband in Malaysia. The first thing you can do is you can go to http://www.unifi.my/ and you can choose which on which category you want. They have 2 categories which are for Consumer or Bussiness. In order to get this HSBB internet connection, you have to go to the TM point and ask for a registration form. In the first category which is for consumer, they have 3 packages. The first one is VIP20 and its RM 249.00 per month. It have special features like we can have free calls to TM fixed line and to call mobile or other fixed line numbers is just 10 sen per minute. For downloading and uploading it can go up to 20 Mbps. There are so much more you can get from this package. The other package on consumer category is VIP10. The price is RM 199.00 per month and some of the features is almost the same as the VIP20 but the difference is just the speed. For downloading and uploading the speed can go up to 10 Mbps and you can download 90 GB per month. Last but not least is the VIP5. It’s RM 149.00 per month and for downloading and uploading is up to 5 Mbps. It’s the lowest speed from the other two packages. So for us, it is better to subscribe the VIP20 package. To subscribe this Unifi, first thing you have to do is you have to check your availability in your area. Then, if your area is serviceable, you can go to the nearest TM point to subscribe Unifi. You can also subscribe this through phone calls by calling TM Unifi Centre at 1300881222 and they have an email address so that they can communicate with the user easily at unifi@tm.com.my.
Reference
Packages of UniFi High Speed Broadband, [Online], Retrieved 26th August 2010
Fiber optic cables are the new technology to gaining faster speeds when it comes to data transfer. This cable is being used for telephone communication, medical imaging, cable TV, and etc. Now in order to achieve high speed broadband, you'd need fiber optic cables. A fiber optic cable is made purely of hair-like strand or strands of glass at its core,an outer material called Cladding,and a plastic on its outer coating. The reason it was made of glass is that if you shine a light at glass at 90 degrees, it passes right through without any interference. But if you shine it at an angle almost parallel to the glass, it reflects off causing the end result to be obvious. So, no matter how the data is produced through the cable, the result would be much clearer than it would be on copper cables. It sends light signals for transmission and transmit only digital signals. It is more expensive than the copper cables, but a massive difference in results are achieved. Soon, all businesses and homes will be using fiber optic cables.
There are two types of fiber optic cables:
Single mode
The single mode cables are made of a single narrow fiber glass cable at its core. It increases the transfer rate and the distance of the transmission. And it costs more than the multi mode cables.
Multi mode
Multi mode cables consists of multiple hair-like strands which are bigger than single mode cables in diameter. It is not recommended for use when one wants to transfer data over long distance because the multiple paths of light can affect the end result to be unclear.
There many different types of fiber optic cable connectors, but these are just the most commonly used ones.
The video below might be a little hard to understand, but it's very interesting to see how the cables are made.Be sure to check it out.
There is quite a few high speed broadband internet service providers(ISPs) in Malaysia which we can subscribe to such as the UNIFI and TIME fibre broadband. UNIFI is launched by Telekom Malaysia Berhad also commonly known as TM. Not like streamyx which uses copper wire, UNIFI uses fibre optic technology which brings much more high speed data. UNIFI offers triple play service which is high internet speed, voice and Hypptv(iptv) in one package. For high speed internet they offer 3 speed packages to subscribe to, 5Mbps, 10Mbps, and 20Mbps. At this time UNIFI offers to only a few locations; Shah Alam, Subang Jaya, Taman Tun Dr Ismail and Bangsar. TIME fibre broadband is launched by TIME dotCom Berhad (TdC) a leading fixed-line telecommunication solution provider in Malaysia. They offer high speed internet access that speeds up to 50mbps, which is the fastest broadband Internet connection available in malaysia to consumers today. It also uses fibre optic technology nearly much the same as UNIFI which they can offer more stable and secure internet connection. The high speed internet access package are ranged from 2Mbps if you added BOOST it can go up to 10Mbps, 5Mbps if you added BOOST it can go up to 50Mbps and 10Mbps if added BOOST it can go up to 50Mbps. TIME fibre broadband is currently available in locations with existing infrastructure, Starting with 7 location all in Mount Kiara.
Communication with each other from all over the world is faster by using high speed broadband connection
You can get updated news or events broadcast to the world in a matter of seconds.
With high speed broadband connection, you can stay online all the time and you do not have to wait for the connection to dial up.
You can count on the reliability and efficiency of high speed broadband.
Downloading videos and audio is much faster
You do not have to worry to do multitask by using high speed broadband because it can support multitasking without any lag of the connection.
References The Benefits of Going High-Speed With Your Internet Connection, [Online], Retrieved 18th August 2010 URL: http://www.broadbandinfo.com/high-speed-internet/benefits/
Do you know what broadband is? Surprisingly most people do not know the true definition of broadband. In Webopedia it says "A type of data transmission in which a single medium (wire) can carry several channels at once. Cable TV, for example, uses broadband transmission. In contrast, baseband transmission allows only one signal at a time." Now broadband doesn't necessarily mean Internet connection. It is actually a general term for a greater frequency range, which means the the speed of transferring data can be faster. In our blog, we're going to be informing about the technologies of High Speed Broadband. Now that you know what broadband is, imagine it much faster than broadband already is! That's what we're going to be discussing about further on in this blog, which is High Speed Broadband Technology.
