Faster broadband speeds for over 19000 buildings and offices Straits Times Over 19000 commercial buildings and offices have been hooked up to the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN), the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) said on Saturday. Apart from faster broadband speeds, occupants of ...

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HDTV will be a greater leap in the quality of the home entertainment experience than even the change from black-and-white TV to color, or Hi-Fi to Stereo, or AM to FM. HDTV, in addition to picture and sound will also deliver data services, such as electronic program guides or information related to the programs you watch. Local broadcast stations broadcasting in HD will be able to broadcast one extra high quality picture, or several separate camera angles equal to today's pictures. HDTV will offer the opportunity to develop sophisticated services that meet consumer demand for flexibility and convenience.

HD will be presented in a 16:9 format and will allow resolutions up to 1940x1080 plus provide you with twice the amount of picture information both vertically and horizontally. It will not work on regular analog televisions since these sets don't support the interfaces required for HDTV signals.

After February 17th of 2009 local analog TV channels will stop transmitting, everything else connected to your analog TV will continue to work.

DVD

By the time HDTV is wide spread, high-definition movies will be on the shelves, playable on Blu-ray, HD DVD or both, depending on which way the format wars go. When you switch over to HD, you may need to connect your HD set-top box, Blu-ray or HD DVD player to your TV using a HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) cable. Both Blu-ray and HD DVD are compatible with existing standard DVD, so you can play your current discs on a next-gen player, but the two competing formats are not compatible with each other. It's a bit of a laugh if you are old enough to remember the 'Beta-Max VHS Wars', Beta you say?

Technology

What problems are facing the early adopters of this new technology and what caveats remain for it to become mainstream? The people buying HDTV units today are known as "early adopters". They usually buy whatever is the 'Latest & Greatest' especially in the Hi-Tech field. Other consumers will have to be sold on the technology. A huge number of older television sets will instantly become obsolete and when their owners make plans to replace them, newer technology like HDTV as it exists at the time of the mass conversion will be very attractive. You can bet that there will be a market for 'conversion hardware' to enable the use of 'analog' sets with the new HD Broadcast Technology. If you now record off-air local TV shows on your VCR you will not be able to continue doing that after February 17th of 2009 without an upgrade. To continue recording local TV programs you will either have to connect a Digital to Analog TV Converter box to your VCR or purchase a different TV recording device that has a DTV tuner built in. You'll need that to continue to record programs from local TV stations after February 17th of 2009. The advent of Tivo will eventually make the VCR question irrelevant.

While the prices of HDTV sets are dropping, the High Definition equivalents of many of the complimentary technologies that we've come to expect will remain relatively expensive, such as home recording and storage media. The HD DVD and Blu-ray war is another slow down in bringing High Definition technology into the mainstream. In reality the main distinctions between competing HD formats will be virtually unnoticeable unless you are viewing on a screen 55"+ in size.

Antenna

In cities across the nation stations have already begun broadcasting an HDTV signal, receivable with an antenna. In order to receive over-the-air digital and HD signals, you need a tuner and a digital antenna. In order to watch local network affiliates, some satellite customers may have to switch from their dish to an antenna. To receive HDTV via antenna you'll need: An HDTV, HDTV tuner, HDTV antenna. Depending on your location you may need an antenna rotor to point the antenna to multiple broadcast towers.

A major hurdle to overcome with over-the-air HD broadcasts via Antenna is, the technology has to overcome the 'consumers' misperceptions and long held myths, combined with lack of knowledge about the capabilities of antennas. The solution to the Antenna/Satellite conversion question may have a more long term effect on the consumer response than the seemingly obvious debate in other hardware.

Note: HDTV tuners that come built-into many HDTVs are over-the-air tuners for use with an antenna and cannot be used as your cable HD tuner.

Local Response

It's always a good idea to check with your local TV dealer regarding what HDTV services are available in your area before buying. It would even be a good idea to call your local TV stations and ask for the Chief Engineer to find out the stations' particulars.

The cable industry believes that HDTV will drive DTV sales up and bring prices down to a where more consumers can buy.

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VoIP is quite a well managed form of technology. The various processes that work together to provide the services of Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP have in them the visible sense of simplicity and also grandeur. For a layman, one only needs to have an overall idea as to how this technology actually works.

Human Voice undergoes the process of being transformed into inanimate entities known as digital signals, which are also composed into digital packets. These packets are then sent over a network.

The primary usage of VoIP is for making VoIP calls, or making telephone calls using the VoIP technology. The above process, makes the process of making calls into quite a simple one, with many facets being increased to more wonderful levels.

The service of enabling calls to be made using this technology is given by large number of websites which base their business operation on the VoIP technology. The user, therefore, when he browses the web in search of VoIP service providers, is now given a huge chain of choices due to many VoIP service providers being now present.

The major attraction of VoIP is that of VoIP call rates have the major distinguishing factor of being quite affordable when compared to calls being made using standard mediums like normal telephones.

The reason for this is also quite logical and for the user it makes quite a sense as it does for the businessman. The process uses the feature of advertising to encounter the process of handling call costs made using the money generated from the sums being paid by the companies putting their product or service related advertisements on VoIP websites.

The reason for doing this is the low cost associated with VoIP phone calls, which increases the number of users using the services of VoIP service providers residing all over the world. Therefore, due to the process of the traffic being quite high (as a result of the number of hits being large), the companies foresee large number of viewers for the advertisements that they host.

VoIP calls, therefore, have become the need of the moment for most human beings today due to the features being provided. The technology of VoIP is also being used in mobile devices now, with mobile VoIP calls being made in larger numbers apart from VoIP phone calls being made using other mediums.

The tools for using VoIP are also quite many, with the option set now being increased with the entry of widgets. The user is able to make calls using other mediums such as the computer or the VoIP phone or even the normal telephone call using an ATA (Analogue Telephone Adaptor).

Most of the recent offers, that are being thought out, have lots of interesting assets other than having the basic technology, Business is for some of the VoIP service provider websites, a feature which gives many features in terms of cost with some absolutely excluding the factor of cost. This is the world of free calls being made and is primarily done using software given by websites which provide this service.

When a person uses the software (which he has downloaded from a service provider website after registering), he normally comes across an user interface which resembles a telephone. This results in VoIP calls being made even by human beings who barely know how to use the computer.

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There is increasing awareness of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in the Australian marketplace of late, and understandably so. VoIP has the potential to revolutionise the way we communicate.

Much of the hype has been around residential VoIP, rather than business VoIP communications. It is crucial to understand that major differences exist between residential and business grade VoIP solutions. Relying on a residential grade VoIP service can have disastrous effects for a business, including loss of sound quality in phone calls and down time where your business’ ability to communicate may be cut off entirely. The integration of a business grade VoIP solution has many cost and efficiency benefits for Australian Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs).

The most obvious advantages of a business-grade VoIP solution are the reductions in call and line rental costs, however, there are many other significant business advantages for SMBs of all sizes to realise:

* Increased productivity by integrating VoIP with the computer desktop and allowing features such as Click2Dial from Outlook

* Increased business metric capabilities from detailed reporting on inbound and outbound call patterns

* Vastly improved and centralised personal attendant and reception capabilities allowing visibility of all staff extensions in a consolidated view, simplifying transfers to extensions and voicemail

* Awareness of an individual’s location as ‘available’, ‘busy’ or ‘out of the office until 2pm’

* Increased efficiency from converging the voice and data networks (operating both voice and data on the one network)

To decide how best to integrate VoIP with your existing voice and data infrastructure you must have a clear understanding of your business drivers and the results you wish to achieve.

VoIP Gateways

Ideal times to consider the introduction of a VoIP solution are during an office relocation, or during times of high growth. An excellent entry level solution for businesses who wish to experience the benefits provided by VoIP is to connect their phone system to PSTN via a VoIP gateway device. A VoIP gateway device is a simple piece of hardware that allows the basic integration of VoIP with a traditional phone system, most often without having to physically change any configuration.

Pacific Internet’s VoIP gateway is connected via a business-grade broadband service and will send calls destined for external locations (whether local, national, mobiles, international or another VoIP service) across the VoIP network and into the traditional phone line at the destination point. It is Pacific Internet that maintains connectivity to the traditional phone line. This scenario allows for the seamless integration between the two networks (PSTN and VoIP) and a traditional phone system to co-exist with a VoIP solution. The advantage of a gradual migration to a total VoIP solution is that it allows you to immediately appreciate some of the benefits of VoIP, without the upfront cost of replacing your entire existing voice infrastructure.

Connecting to Traditional Voice Networks via VoIP

A number of scenarios are available to connect your phone system to the traditional PSTN via VoIP, the most common of which are:

* Full replacement of traditional analogue or digital lines for all inbound and outbound calls, providing for standard geographic Direct Inward Dial (DID) numbers to be allocated to the VoIP service, for example, 02 9999 9999 for Sydney, 07 3333 3333 for Brisbane, 02 4900 0000 for Newcastle

* Partial replacement of traditional analogue or digital lines for all outbound calls

* Installation of additional VoIP lines to sustain call overflow during unexpected or regular peaks in outbound calls traffic

* Additional lines for calling only specific, designated prefixes. For example, making all outbound calls to mobiles via VoIP.

Each of these scenarios can be configured to either work automatically or to require manual user selection with most phone systems. For example, if VoIP is being installed solely to make all outbound calls to mobiles then the phone system can be set-up via Least Cost Routing (LCR) to automatically use a VoIP line when an individual calls a mobile.

An important consideration when integrating your traditional telephone system with VoIP is to very clearly understand current calling behaviour. For consideration are items such as:

* How many simultaneous inbound calls does the business receive?

* How many simultaneous outbound calls does the business make?

* How many spare PSTN ports (or trunk ports) does the telephone system have?

* Are the spare PSTN ports for analogue lines or for digital (ISDN) lines?

* If there are currently insufficient spare PSTN ports, can the phone system be cost-effectively upgraded with additional cards to provide sufficient port capacity?

Once you have a clear understanding of your current call behaviour and phone system, you can accurately determine how many VoIP lines are required and the resulting demands this will place on business-grade broadband service. You must consider bandwidth requirements, segregation of voice from data, and Quality of Service (QoS).

As your VoIP provider, Pacific Internet, can make qualified recommendations on the best configuration to achieve your desired business benefits. Integrating VoIP with an existing business data network and phone system takes a significant amount of careful planning and it is crucial that this step not be overlooked, however, it is an ideal way to test a VoIP solution and immediately start to appreciate some of the cost and efficiency benefits that VoIP can provide.

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