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The Asia Pacific region has been identified as a high growth and emerging market for broadband and converged access services. In a recently published report by the Dell'Oro Group, a market research analyst firm based in Redwood City, CA., Dell'Oro Group estimated that DSL subscriber lines will grow by more than double by 2008. According to the firm's report, the Asia Pacific region was estimated to have 45 Million DSL lines in service in 2004, going to over 93 Million subscriber lines in service by 2008, growing over 105% in the next 3-year period.
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NSSL's customers require continuous broadband access for the reliable transfer of data on board some of the most exclusive motor yachts in the world. The Allot NetEnforcer has allowed NSSL to offer a bespoke managed data service capable of guaranteeing the delivery of pre-defined bandwidth for its fleet of customers, Premium Plus, (a dedicated broadband channel), Premium (2MB), Standard (1MB), and Economy (512kbps). The solution ... prioritizes network traffic, manages peer-to-peer, regulates applications and enforces SLAs. The NetEnforcer has enabled NSSL to significantly upgrade its customer service by providing real time solutions for network issues.
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As part of the 2002 farm bill reauthorization, Congress took steps to address this inequity by allocating $100 million to improving access broadband technology in rural areas. The funding through loans and loan guarantees are for construction, improvement and acquisition of facilities and equipment for broadband service. Rural counties under 20,000 population base that do not currently have broadband service or are slated to have the service in the future county governments are eligible for loans and loan guarantees under the program.
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The current low penetration rates offer immense growth opportunities in the Asia Pacific broadband access market until 2009. "In 2004, there were more than 70 million broadband subscribers in Asia Pacific, with DSL being capturing for more than half of that subscriber base," says the analyst of this research service. Once last mile access issues are sorted out, service providers can hope to experience more robust growth.
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"Broadcom is very pleased to have partnered with Pirelli to deploy next generation broadband access services within its Discus line of ADSL2+ gateway products," said Greg Fischer, Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom's Broadband Carrier Access line of business. "The Pirelli and Broadcom relationship, which cost-effectively delivers next generation broadband services over ADSL2+, as well as Wi-Fi® and VoIP phone services, exemplifies a winning combination of advanced silicon and software solutions driven by industry leaders."
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President George W. Bush -- who has expressed his hope for universal, affordable broadband access by 2007 -- and state regulators across the nation are working to encourage deployment of broadband services, and specifically BPL. Since BPL technology uses existing electric power lines, it has the potential to reach every customer that is connected to the electric delivery grid -- a marked advantage over cable and DSL broadband.
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