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Does it surprise you that South Korea not only has the fastest average Internet connection at 11.0 megabits per second, but they have the most coverage at about 90%. The US and Canada have a relatively slow average broadband at 4.2 and 3.8 megabits/second. Some areas are still on really slow dial-up. DSL connections run at about 10 megabits/second, cable at 16 and fiber optic at 100 megabits per second. These are optimal numbers Streaming TV and movies requires high band width so the race is on to deliver it to combination computers which will act as TVs when it is desired. Many in our area do this now. It is no surprise that Hong Kong, Japan and Korea lead the way in penetration of high speed transmission. The culture is hooked on electronics and industry runs with it. Many North Americans now depend on the Internet for at least part of their work week done at home using the Internet. If cloud computing is to be a success much deeper penetration of high speed transmission is vital. Cloud computing moves programs off your PC's desktop and puts them on server farms. The big guys like Google are betting on it to be the way people compute and entertain themselves in the future. Take a look at Google documents to see the first attempts by them to replace things on your desktop. (they have a long way to go) Lots of companies in startup mode are using Cloud computing techniques to do the next generation software.
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An example of that is a private company in the United States that will offer Securities and Exchange Commission report preparation on the Cloud for a fee of $24,000/year. This takes the nasty task out of CFO offices and moves it to a standard set of software that most public companies can use. This is a small application with a narrow focus, but the now private company developing it is burning cash at about $500,000/month in a race to get the software done. Since The Cloud does not have to be super fast to do this application, they have a good chance for success. It's an odd situation in that computing 20 years ago was done on large mainframes using 'time sharing'. Then we had the PC revolution followed by the Internet. Now we have the Cloud that looks a lot like the original mainframe, although it has a lot more redundancy and power. The PC will stay king for a good while, but the Cloud is moving toward us. We need bandwidth across North America to support it. PCs will have their place too.
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