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Broadband refers to high speed web access with a higher data transmission rate. The cyber world has been drastically revolutionized with the arrival of broadband internet. Generally, all the 256 kbps connections are considered as being the broadband ones. The ITU (International-Telecom-Union) Standardization Sector has defined the broadband as the transmission-capacity that's extremely fast when compared to the ISDN.

So far, there is no bit rate that's specifically defined by the industry and therefore broadband could also mean methods of transmission with lower-bit-rate. Some ISPs (Internet Service Providers) have been taking advantage of it and market themselves as being the providers of broad band connections that are actually lower bit rate internet connections. However, subscribers usually don't get the same bandwidth as these ISPs advertise. Most often ISPs allow more customers to subscribe to their services than can be handled with ease. They do so assuming that most of the users won't be using the using the services as the same time and thus the services would be available for all without any problem. This strategy is a rule that lets you use the entire bandwidth allocated to you as frequently as you need. However, extended-high-bandwidth duration is required for P2P file-sharing systems. Thus, the issues are stressed and make a big cause of concern for the ISPs who have got more subscribers than the bandwidth they have to offer.

It's expected that in the years to come online video-on-demand services will become highly popular as the bandwidth delivered to end users will also increase. However, these services require more specialized networks. The data transmission rate that most of the broad band services offer is still insufficient as far as providing high quality video is concerned. For playing MPEG 2 videos, at least 6Mbps data transmission speed is needed. Though you can avail video for very few purposes at lower-data-rates as well such as at 384 or 768kbps for video conferencing.

There are a number of ISPs that offer various lucrative broadband internet plans you can choose according to your requirements. Choose the plan that best fits your requirements of daily internet usage or the speed.

Raina Kelsey is an expert author, and writes about latest gadgets.
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