Today Ericsson, one of the world's leading broadband network technology providers, released "Broadband Made Easy", a simple guide which aims to demystify broadband terminology and plainly illustrate and compare what the different types of broadband can deliver to a typical household.

Ericsson Australia's Broadband Made Easy defines terms including Satellite, ADSL, ADSL2+, Cable Modem, 3G/HSPA, Fibre, WiMAX and Ethernet. Included in the guide is a table that succinctly compares the real-world capability of different broadband technologies.

Industry analysts, Ovum Australia, provided input into the guide, researching carriers and services around the world.

Ovum analyst, David Kennedy, says: "Broadband is used for more than just Internet.  For example, an ADSL service or broadband over your telephone line, usually allows one desktop PC and one normal phone. But with full ADSL2+, you can use a PC, a laptop computer, two phones and a high definition TV simultaneously."

Colin Goodwin, Group Product Manager Broadband for Ericsson Australia says that in another five years time, the world will have around 1.5 billion broadband subscriptions over fixed and mobile access.

"Broadband connectivity has quickly become the most successful telecom service offering ever: already over 250 million households have hooked up to broadband on a fixed access, and now we are adding mobile broadband subscribers as well.

We have found that many people are quite understandably confused by the jargon and complications of broadband. As one of the few organisations who are expert in all the main forms of broadband, we set out to make comparing broadband technologies easier for ordinary people," added Mr. Goodwin.
 
Click here to download The Broadband Made Easy Guide. 

Click here to download the Ovum Typical Broadband Packages document.

Ericsson is shaping the future of Mobile and Broadband Internet communications through its continuous technology leadership. Providing innovative solutions in more than 140 countries, Ericsson is helping to create the most powerful communication companies in the world.

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