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By: Uchenna Ani-okoye

Your Introduction to Broadband Internet

Broadband internet has been able to successfully revolutionise the way we work and the way we live. It has been able to open successfully open up a can of possibilities, with its potential to open more, forever growing. The idea of a cardiovascular surgery being conducted live online, under the guidance and supervision of a surgeon is something that could never have been imagined in the past; or when we look at the foreign exchange market, where the purpose of important currencies and transaction of sales which are worth several billions of dollars on a day to day basis could all happen within a matter of seconds. There are countless examines that could be mentioned, and it’s all been made possible with the introduction of broadband internet.

Broadband internet can only be described as a huge highway which allows smooth and speed traffic of many vehicles flowing in the opposite directions, without any end. Satellite transmissions have been successful at facilitating broadband internet. With this type of transmission, many modes of communication are possible. It’s possible for you to transfer data containing text, music, photographs, audio, video, graphics and many image formats. It’s also possible for you to make financial transactions instantly, or just exchange pleasantries. Through encryption and decryption techniques, broadband is able to facilitate all of this, both securely and privately.

If you were to compare a dialup connection to a broadband connection, you would quickly be able to see the differences. Try to imagine uploading a Photoshop file or an eBook using a dialup connection. It would take you a considerable length of time. A music file that would take you a few seconds to download using a broadband connection would take you minutes if you were to use a dialup connection. Using broadband internet you are able to transfer data at 20 times the rate of a dialup line.