WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 331 / 356
• ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), the common broadband access
technology that utilizes existing telephone lines to provide Internet access.
• VoIP (Voice over IP), is a technology that enables one to make analog calls through
the internet.
• IP-TV, is the service that allows to transmit video content on the IP protocol,
guaranteeing a suitable quality of the service.
• DVB (Digital Video Broadcast), is a satellite technology that allows to receive high
speed Internet access using a satellite connection. DVB is a one-way, downlink-only
satellite technology.
• VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal), is 2-way satellite service that allows to use a
single satellite antenna to send and receive Internet transmissions at the same time.
• VPN's (Virtual Private Networks), is a solution that allow to send and receive
sensitive, private and confidential data across the Internet without it being
compromised or seen by anyone else along the Internet transmission path.
• MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching), is used for speeding up network traffic flow
within the service providers backbone. It can be used to provide clients with QoS
(Quality of Service), CoS (Class of Service), TE (Traffic Engineering), and other
similar features whose sole purpose is to ensure that clients that require such a
service are able to get the access speed they or their businesses require, regardless
of the whether the backbone network is congested or not.
• Broadband Wireless, both mobile and fixed. It is capable of providing dedicated and
shared access speeds from 32Kbps up to 1Mbps, and more.
• AMR (Automatic Meter Reading), is a service that allows to known some information
from remote, using the electric network. Currently, it is used above all by telephonic
and electrical operators to deliver the invoice of the bill to the consumers.
• PLC (PowerLine Communications), is the technology that allows to receive data from
the power line.