Utilizing a survey approach, this research set out to explore the reasons for the slow progress in broadband adoption and investigates the factors that may be affecting the adoption of broadband by KSA consumers. Particular emphasis was placed on individual-level factors such as social and cultural influences. The key findings were that the factors with the main influence on attitude towards ad...

Fixed broadband beamformers using small-size microphone arrays are known to be highly sensitive to errors in the microphone array characteristics. This paper describes two design procedures for designing broadband beamformers with an arbitrary spatial directivity pattern, which are robust against gain and phase errors in the microphone array characteristics. The first design procedure optimises...

Network Monitoring is a base for Usage Accounting, Network Auditing, Intrusion Detection , Protocol Analysis, Flow Statistics etc. Normally, network monitoring is quite common at low broadband network, especially in 100M/10M Ethernet . While in high broadband backbone, for example Gigabit Ethernet and 2.5G POS (OC48) backbone, a lot of problems exist, including tapping point, packet loss on NIC...

We introduce the concept of a quantum pulse gate (QPG), a method for accessing the intrinsic broadband spectral mode structure of ultrafast quantum states of light. This mode structure can now be harnessed for applications in quantum information processing. We propose an implementation in a PPLN waveguide, based on spectrally engineered sum frequency generation (SFG). It allows us to pick well-...

Only radically lower cost service delivery models can close the growing “broadband gap that characterizes much of the developing world. Inveneo’s Haiti Rural Broadband Initiative seeks to demonstrate one such model by combining low-cost wireless technologies, shared infrastructure and local IT capacity building to extend broadband to 22 un-served population centers in Haiti. While progress is p...

Broadband access plays a major role for the economic growth and for the social and cultural development of urban and rural areas. Market failure within the broadband sector emerges often in regions with a low density of population and weak economic conditions. A provision of broadband infrastructure and services in such areas is not attractive to private investments because of a low or even neg...

The law of momentum conservation rules out many desired processes in optical microresonators. We report broadband momentum transformations of light in asymmetric whispering gallery microresonators. Assisted by chaotic motions, broadband light can travel between optical modes with different angular momenta within a few picoseconds. Efficient coupling from visible to near-infrared bands is demons...

It may be argued that the general price-comparison based business model of Internet Service Providers may work in short term. However, to make such a model sustainable and to attract future customers a greater understanding of various factors affecting broadband internet adoption by consumers is essential. This paper examines a range of factors that possibly influence the Pakistani household co...

The steady growth of broadband penetration in the United States is indicative of a major shift in advanced data services and last-mile infrastructure in the deregulated telecommunication environment. Although there are concerns with the equitable provision of broadband services in urban, rural and remote areas, the diffusion process has also created a unique landscape of broadband availability ...

Fixed broadband beamformers using small-sized microphone arrays are known to be highly sensitive to errors in the microphone array characteristics. This paper describes a procedure for designing broadband beamformers with an arbitrary spatial directivity pattern, which are robust against errors in the microphone positions. The presented design procedure optimises the mean performance of the bro...