Vertical Systems group today released the latest data on fiber penetration.
Though fiber penetration is up slightly, 77% of U.S. commercial buildings still do not have fiber-optic connectivity.
From the report:
Detailed findings show that while most large enterprise locations in the U.S. and Europe are fiber-connected, small and medium business (SMB) sites are underserved with fiber from any service provider (i.e., incumbent carrier, competitive provider, Cable MSO, PTT, etc.)…
“The challenge ahead is to extend fiber connectivity to remote business locations. For the U.S. plus countries throughout Europe, this fiber gap exceeds more than one million sites,” said Rosemary Cochran, principal at Vertical Systems Group.
Posted February 23, 2010 by Nate Rosenberg
In Expert Articles on February 19, 2010 by Nate Rosenberg Tagged: ethernet, qos, video conferencing, vlan, voice, voip
Many people ask, “Does VoIP run well over 1Velocity?
Absolutely! 1Velocity customers use a variety of VoIP systems on our network (Cisco, Shoretel, Mitel, Polycom, etc.) with great call quality. And we are cross-connected to multiple hosted VoIP providers.
Two keys for top-notch call quality are a low latency connection and separating VoIP traffic from the rest of your data.
Latency is the time it takes for voice or data packets to get from one location to the next. If the latency is too high, your phone conversation slows down and you can get echo. For a phone conversation, you usually need less than 150 ms latency one way. Latency across the valley on 1Velocity is a screaming 1 ms, more than fast enough for real-time voice or video conferencing.
The other important task is separating voice traffic from other traffic. If voice and data share the same bandwidth, voice quality will suffer as the line gets congested. Virtual LANs (VLANs) and Quality of Service (QoS) allow you to virtually carve out separate lines for voice and data and prioritize the voice traffic, so that call quality on the voice VLAN stays consistent no matter how much data there is on the data VLAN.
Since 1Velocity’s network is Layer 2 at all points, you can set up multiple VLANs to separate different types of traffic and run QoS.
In 1Velocity in the News,Link,Uncategorized on February 15, 2010 by Nate Rosenberg
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Here’s a different kind of speed test. YouTube today announced YouTube Video Speed Dashboard:
“YouTube video speed depends on many different factors some of which are the speed of your Internet connection, the Internet Service Provider (ISP) you are using and the distance to the video servers. The goal with this dashboard is to give you insight into what your YouTube speed looks like compared to the YouTube speed of users in other regions and different ISPs.”
Test your YouTube Video Speed and compare it to other ISPs and cities outside Las Vegas and Reno.
