Broadband is a high capacity communications pipeline capable of delivering simultaneously a range of voice, video and data services to the home in a truly interactive manner. However the term broadband covers a host of new products, technologies, service and networks making it difficult to describe it by a simple definition as given above.

Bandwidth is the key and just how much bandwidth qualifies as broadband is curently up for debate. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) defines it as an information service with a carryig capacity in excess of 200 Kbit/s in both upstream and downstream direction, in the last mile. However some video providers and internet technology suppliers think that this rate is too low, and to spur the creationof truly new services such as VOD the definitional floor should be atleast 750 Kbit/s.

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