Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems    by Manlio Allegra      Home         Topics: Main | Standards Organizations | Archive   Fiber-to-the-Home Council Calls for "100 Megabit Nation" The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council is calling on the U.S. government to adopt a "100 Megabit Nation" policy aimed at ensuring that next-generation broadband connections are universally available by 2015. The FTTH Council proposed that Congress and the President act by the end of 2007 to adopt a strategy and timetable for clearing the way for all Americans to gain access to communication services at transmission speeds in excess of 100 Mbps. The recommendation included the goal of extending, through both private and public sector initiatives, affordable next-generation broadband to a majority of Americans by 2010, with universal availability by 2015. "Other nations are deploying lightening-fast broadband networks that have the potential to leave America's available systems in the dust if we don't upgrade quickly," said Leonard Ray, Chairman of the Council's Government Relations Committee. "In Japan, Korea, and a number of European countries, fiber-to-the-home networks and 100 megabit connections are increasingly common. America must accelerate its broadband connectivity." http://www.ftthcouncil.org 07-Mar-07 No video on this topic yet.. contact us to present your views. Recent Standards News Royalty-Free End-User Licensing for H.264 AVC Internet Video 8/27/2010 HomePlug AV2 Spec to Support Gigabit-class Powerline 7/28/2010 Wholesale Applications Community Sets Course 7/27/2010 OpenSAF Announces High Availability Middleware Release 4.0 7/27/2010 ZyXEL's VDSL Products Gain IPv6 Phase II Certification 7/21/2010 Vendors back POLQA -- Mobile Voice Quality Testing Standard 7/16/2010 OIF Finalizes IAs for 100G Modules and Control Plane Logging/Auditing 7/14/2010 Alvarion to Support TDD-LTE 7/13/2010 Internet2 Appoints Dave Lambert as CEO 7/8/2010 Bluetooth Adopts Low Energy Spec for Wireless Sensors 7/7/2010 WiMAX Forum Publishes Femtocell Standard 6/17/2010 HomeGrid Forum Partners with BroadBand Forum 6/15/2010 HomePlug Powerline Alliance’s Green PHY Spec for Smart Grid Published 6/14/2010 ITU Approves G.hn as Global Standard for Wired Home Networking 6/11/2010 Eight Silicon Vendors Back G.hn 6/11/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton