February 02, 2010: TOKYO—East Asian countries led by South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan are the best wired in the world with the highest number of fast broadband connections to the Internet, a recent report has found.
South Korea boasts the world's highest average connection speed at 14.6 Megabytes per second (Mbps) and also has six of Asia's ten cities with the fastest link-ups, all with average speeds above 15 Mbps.
Japan had the second highest average connection speed of 7.9 Mbps, followed by the Chinese territory of Hong Kong with 7.6 Mbps, said the report by US-based network provider Akamai Technologies.
The other countries in the top ten are Romania, followed by Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark and the Czech Republic, with the United States at 18th place, with an average speed of 3.9 Mbps.
The survey classifies "broadband" connections as those of 2 Mbps or more, and "high broadband" as 5 Mbps or over, while link-ups at 20 Mbps and better were categorized as "extremely high speed connectivity."
In South Korea, 74 percent of connections were "high broadband," the world's top rate, while the figure was 60 percent in Japan, followed by Hong Kong with 46 percent, said the report.
The United States came twelfth, with just 24 percent of its connections at 5 Mbps or more. Worldwide, the high broadband percentage was 19 percent.
Growing demand for online high-definition video content is driving demand for faster connections, said Akamai's 'State of the Internet' report for the third quarter of 2009.
"As the quantity of HD-quality media increases over time and the consumption of that media increases, end users are likely to require ever-increasing amounts of bandwidth," the report said. - Agence France-Presse/INQUIRER.net
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Local tech startup connects OFWs with their families
Millions of Filipinos are constantly on the lookout for inexpensive ways to communicate with their loved ones working abroad. Fortunately, a local company is stepping up to meet this growing demand.
Florante Cruz, president and CEO of startup Ocean 8 Multimedia group, said that with one in ten Filipinos working abroad, making the world a smaller place was the least he could do for his country.
Cruz, who was once one of the top engineers at Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), is behind the new product called USB/IP, short for universal serial bus/Internet protocol.
USB/IP works by connecting a small electronic device to a computer’s USB port. Once this is done, and assuming that the computer is connected to the Internet, a person can use that computer to call their loved ones anywhere in the world.
The device can be used in two ways. One way is for a USB/IP user to call another USB/IP user. These calls are for free.
The other way is to use the USB/IP to call landlines or mobile phone numbers almost anywhere around the world for a fee much smaller than what local phone firms charge for international calls.
This might sound familiar to many Filipinos who now use “Magic Jack,” which allows users to make calls to any phone in the United States for free.
Cruz points out that USB/IP’s biggest advantage over Magic Jack is that the latter is illegal in the Philippines since the product is not registered with the government, particularly the National Telecommunications Commission.
Another advantage is, while Magic Jack only works for calls to the United States, USB/IP lets you make free or cheap calls to anywhere in the world.
Another bonus for USB/IP is a feature that allows for free video conferencing. While sites like Yahoo! And Skype have their own video features, Cruz claims that USB/IP’s superior data compression technology, streaming live videos becomes smooth, unlike those provided by other services.
“There are other products out there that we compete with, but this is the most complete solution,” Cruz said.
He said a similar service is also now available for mobile phones called MobIP. This can be used to make free voice calls using smart phones connected to the Internet. MobIP can even be downloaded on App Store for iPhone users.
USB/IP devices go for P4,500 each, while MobIP subscriptions, meanwhile, will set a user back by P850. Both fees however are one-time fees, Cruz said. - Paolo Montecillo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Posted date: April 25, 2010
Florante Cruz, president and CEO of startup Ocean 8 Multimedia group, said that with one in ten Filipinos working abroad, making the world a smaller place was the least he could do for his country.
Cruz, who was once one of the top engineers at Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), is behind the new product called USB/IP, short for universal serial bus/Internet protocol.
USB/IP works by connecting a small electronic device to a computer’s USB port. Once this is done, and assuming that the computer is connected to the Internet, a person can use that computer to call their loved ones anywhere in the world.
The device can be used in two ways. One way is for a USB/IP user to call another USB/IP user. These calls are for free.
The other way is to use the USB/IP to call landlines or mobile phone numbers almost anywhere around the world for a fee much smaller than what local phone firms charge for international calls.
This might sound familiar to many Filipinos who now use “Magic Jack,” which allows users to make calls to any phone in the United States for free.
Cruz points out that USB/IP’s biggest advantage over Magic Jack is that the latter is illegal in the Philippines since the product is not registered with the government, particularly the National Telecommunications Commission.
Another advantage is, while Magic Jack only works for calls to the United States, USB/IP lets you make free or cheap calls to anywhere in the world.
Another bonus for USB/IP is a feature that allows for free video conferencing. While sites like Yahoo! And Skype have their own video features, Cruz claims that USB/IP’s superior data compression technology, streaming live videos becomes smooth, unlike those provided by other services.
“There are other products out there that we compete with, but this is the most complete solution,” Cruz said.
He said a similar service is also now available for mobile phones called MobIP. This can be used to make free voice calls using smart phones connected to the Internet. MobIP can even be downloaded on App Store for iPhone users.
USB/IP devices go for P4,500 each, while MobIP subscriptions, meanwhile, will set a user back by P850. Both fees however are one-time fees, Cruz said. - Paolo Montecillo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Posted date: April 25, 2010
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