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Broadband is not only used for a high speed connection. In fact, the latest wave of technology, Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) requires its users to have broadband access. With broadband access the users of VOIP are changing the face of communication all over the world. With faster ways to communicate, the interest in a broadband connection and VOIP is on a rapid rise. Thanks to broadband, people can actually use the Internet to make telephone calls and no longer have to rely on plain old telephone lines.

Landline phones are fast becoming a thing of the past. Although users of VOIP require a high speed connection and may even require special software, the use of such technology has landline phone users switching over to the advantages that VOIP provides. What are the benefits of high speed technology over the plain old telephony service of yesteryear? You may be pleasantly surprised.

First, the fees associated with VOIP are often cheaper than a standard telephone service with the same features offered. Consumers today are always looking to save a buck and those individuals with high speed access have no trouble converting to VOIP telephone services. The fees vary from one VOIP to another, but a number of companies are offering services at more than reasonable costs to their subscribers.

Next, certain VOIP long distance calls do not incur a long distance charge at all. Moreover, even some international calls can be made without incurring additional charges. Thus, once again the cost is a big factor as to why consumers are switching from landline phone service to the technologically advanced services offered by high speed Internet access and VOIP.

With high speed Internet and VOIP services, many business owners are also seeing the benefits. First, an increase in productivity can be identified with the use of VOIP and business owners can have video conferencing and phone conferencing immediately available to them. This can cut down significantly on travel costs and it can increase the efficiency with which all business is handled within and outside the company.

The days of having lines of cable installed to have phone services and computer services are now over. High speed connections and VOIP services have literally done away with the snarling mess of under desk wires that accumulate from such services. Rather, all phone and conferencing transactions are handled through the computer, the high speed Internet Access and the VOIP software provided by VOIP manufacturers and distributors.

What does the future hold for high speed Internet and VOIP? Only time will tell, yet one thing is for certain, that the increased efficiency, the broader abilities to communicate and the money saving advantages of such technology are a sure indication that VOIP technologies are here for the long run. Why miss out? Catch the wave and get your high speed Internet and VOIP services today. Whether you get them for your personal use or you get such services for your business, the benefits you will derive from their use are more than worth their investment.

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Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Broadband

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As the Consumer Electronics Show is kicking off 2005 in Las Vegas, one of the stars promises to be the emerging technology of Ultra-Wideband (UWB). UWB is wireless networking that is used for a multitude of electronic components and devices ranging from high definition TV, portable digital devices, to your traditional computer. UWB promises to blow away the current home wireless connections we are used to.

How will we use UWB? UWB could replace all of the wires and cables used in a home entertainment system. Your portable MP3 player could stream the audio to high-quality speakers placed anywhere in the room. A digital camcorder or still camera can play back the pictures on your TV without a wire connection. Your large LCD or plasma TV screen can be hung on any wall with no wires to attach. The wired USB connected peripherals could become obsolete as wireless UWB effectively makes the connections. That means you could set your mobile computer on a desk and be instantly connected to your printer, scanner and VoIP headset. In a word, wires may become a thing of the past.

UWB is seeking to make the “unwired” home a reality. To make this possible, UWB provides the vehicle to connect television programs, movies, games, output from hand-held devices, etc. without interference from other wireless transmissions. Current technologies have not been fast enough to route high bandwidth applications around the home without the use of wires or cables. Now the means exist with low cost, low power, high speed UWB.

The effective operating range for UWB is approximately ten meters or thirty feet. In this range, ultra-wideband operates across a wide range of frequency spectrum through the transmission of a series of very narrow and low power pulses. This provides much less interference than the narrowband radio designs. By incorporating UWB with the 802.15.3 PAN standard, it will provide a home wireless multimedia network that supports multiple devices without interference with other UWB networks of the neighbors.

There are other apparent advantages to the UWB technology. Since the UWB transceivers operate with low power, short burst radio waves, they are very easy and cheap to build compared to the traditional transceivers. The UWB systems consume around 1/10,000th of the power that a cell phone consumes. This makes UWB easily usable in small devices like cell phones and PDAs where small power consumption is a big advantage. Because of this low power operation, there will be little interference with other systems. In a recent test, an ultra-wideband transceiver yielded fantastic performance while operating in close proximity to an 802.11b network, a cordless phone, a microwave oven and a cellular/PCS phone.

The Federal Trade Commission (FCC) recently granted certification to Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. for commercial use of the UWB technology. Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. and Universal Scientific Industrial Co., Ltd. Are collaborating on a UWB-enabled 1394 module and are the first to harness the benefits of ultra-wideband and the 1394 standard. They expect to sell the module to leading consumer electronic manufacturers for use in wireless LCD televisions and a variety of home media devices. Other companies, such as Intel, are working on different versions of the ultra-wideband module.

What had been speculation is now moving into the production stage in 2005. The way we use wireless will be rapidly changing when the standardization for ultra-wideband technology becomes set and all the devices are able to take advantage of a universal playing field. The winner will be the consumer as an exciting new world opens up for UWB wireless applications.

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If you have a chance to read my other article about the money movement strategy you will learn some reasons why I think this decade closely resembles the last decade with regards to the interest rates and stock market trends and why I believe that we are going to see a strong rally in the stock market over the next 2 years.

But now I found another reason. This is what I will call the technological reason. Well let’s see:

In the later part of the 1990’s and beginning in 1995, we saw the beginning of the Internet as we know today. In 1995 Netscape introduced a tool which we call a browser and it became one of the most important inventions of the 90’s today. While the internet itself had been around for many years before. Until 1995 it was only used in text only modes. But then in 1995 Netscape and MS Internet Explorer began to give us the internet in a new way. This not only enabled ecommerce in the way we know it today, but so many other things that we take advantage of each day, including high speed internet. And just as the Personal Computer was the great invention of the late 80’s the internet browser became the greatest invention of the 90’s.

And if it were not for this great browser technology, then we would never have had such a big stock market rally in the late 90’s. This was one of the main reasons for all of those Dotcom’s and then we even had Y2k to top it off!

So now something that I read in an article about 3 years ago is beginning to make sense. They have already predicted that the next great invention for this decade will be Full WIFI access from everybody. And guess what it is beginning to happen. You will now see the term WiMAX. This is that new technology that will help fuel the stock market in the same way that PC did in the 80’s and the Internet Browser did in the 90’s So for 2000 it will be WiMax. WiMax is like taking WIFI which is an the home or small business level and now the range goes form under 300 feet to over 75 miles! If I am correct you will see this technology popup in the news like crazy over the next 5 years. So while we do have some other Geo Political problems. Technology always seems to be able to drive the market in a much stronger ways. They also predicted that certain companies that make this technology possible will be the winner in the NASDAQ So I am wondering what will happen to the technology stocks of the companies which are already working with this new technology. At least you can be sure that they will be part of the next rally.

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