Introduction to HSPA+

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High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) as defined in Webopedia.com is a set of mobile telephony protocols that includes two popular standards; HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) and HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access).HSPA was deployed in 2005 and has been evolving ever since. HSPA services are mostly found in mobile devices such as mobile phones or laptops with HSPA modems. Compared to Wideband Code Division Multiple Acces (WCDMA), which was what most mobile devices use to access the Internet or transfer data, HSPA was a big step up to Internet access through mobile devices. WCDMA supports up to 384 Kbps downlink speed and uplink speed. While HSPA supports up to 14.4 Mbps downlink speed and 5.7 Mbps uplink speed.

HSPA+ also know as "Evolution of HSPA" or "I-HSPA" is the successor of HSPA. It supports up to 42 Mbps downlink speed and 11 Mbps uplink speed. Not many Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) carriers provide HSPA+ service. As mentioned in the previous post, T-Mobile in North America does provide this speedy data connection. The video below gives a clearer explanation of what HSPA is with visuals.



References
Internet References

• PC Magazine, HSPA Definition from PC Magazine Encyclopedia [Online], Retrieved 20th October 2010, URL: http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=HSPA&i=58942,00.asp
• Webopedia, What is High Speed Packet Access? [Online], Retrieved 20th Ocotober 2010,URL: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/High_Speed_Packet_Access.html 
• The Free Dictionary, HSPA definition of HSPA in the Free Online Encyclopedia [Online], Retrieved 20th October 2010, URL: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/HSPA 

Fiber Optic Cables

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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.



References

• How Stuff Works, How Does Fiber Optic Cables Work?[Online], Retrieved 25th August 2010, URL: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question402.htm
• How Stuff Works, How Fiber Optics Work[Online], Retrieved 25th August 2010, URL : http://communication.howstuffworks.com/fiber-optic-communications/fiber-optic.htm

Benefits Of High Speed Broadband Internet

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It makes business move faste

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/

Introduction

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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.

References

Webopedia, What is Broadband?[Online], Retrieved 18th August 2010, URL: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/broadband.html