100Mbps over cable internet in 2006
Finnish broadband equipment manufacturer Teleste says Broadband Internet access via TV cables will be able to hit 100 megabits per second as early as next year. This would be about 50 times faster than current speeds offered by most cable companies. Similar speeds are also available via the fiber optic lines but are much more expensive to build from ground up.
“This is a cost-efficient technology as we use the cable TV networks which are already in place,” Said Jukka Rinnevaara, chief executive of small-cap Finnish broadband equipment manufacturer Teleste
Teleste, the broadband equipment manufacturer, would have to compete with much larger companies such as Scientific Atlanta and Cisco. On the upside they say, they don’t expect them to have such technology until 2007.
Cost of consumer fees and installation would be about the same as the early adopters expected to pay when cable internet first appeared but because of popularity and high demand, cable companies are willing to make discounts.
Currently, cable provider Essent of the Netherlands is in the middle of testing the faster speeds over cable TV but they are not fully up to 100Mbps yet.
“Based on our research 30 Megabits per second is the absolute minimum in future homes. Just one TV program would take 10-20 Megabits per second of this alone. So, very fast we would reach a need for 30 Megabits, and also for 50 Megabits per second,” Pekka Rissanen, a Teleste executive told reporters at a news conference.
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11:47 am July 20th, 2005 
Finnish broadband equipment manufacturer Teleste says Broadband Internet access via TV cables will be able to hit 100 megabits per second as early as next year. This would be about 50 times faster than current speeds offered by most cable companies. Similar speeds are also available via the fiber optic lines but are much more expensive to build from ground up.
“This is a cost-efficient technology as we use the cable TV networks which are already in place,” Said Jukka Rinnevaara, chief executive of small-cap Finnish broadband equipment manufacturer Teleste
Teleste, the broadband equipment manufacturer, would have to compete with much larger companies such as Scientific Atlanta and Cisco. On the upside they say, they don’t expect them to have such technology until 2007.
Cost of consumer fees and installation would be about the same as the early adopters expected to pay when cable internet first appeared but because of popularity and high demand, cable companies are willing to make discounts.
Currently, cable provider Essent of the Netherlands is in the middle of testing the faster speeds over cable TV but they are not fully up to 100Mbps yet.
“Based on our research 30 Megabits per second is the absolute minimum in future homes. Just one TV program would take 10-20 Megabits per second of this alone. So, very fast we would reach a need for 30 Megabits, and also for 50 Megabits per second,” Pekka Rissanen, a Teleste executive told reporters at a news conference.
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