Discuss the effect of broadband technology on the design and development of multimedia applications.

Broadband, "an easy-to-install, always on internet connection giving a high speed access, of up to 40 times faster than a standard telephone line" (bt.com/broadband), is a fast emerging fibre optic technology with "at least 40,000 households and companies a week installing this connection" (Metro Newspaper) promising to change the way we all perceive and "surf" the World Wide Web. It is a high speed data transmission medium revolution that will soon add a whole host …showed first 75 words of 1743 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1743 total…Health Informatics Society of Australia http://www.ict.csiro.au/ViCCU/PDF/wc2003.pdf ØTweney, D. "Video spam, anyone? Broadband may cause annoying side effects", InfoWorld http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/10/25/991025optweney.xml Øhttp://www.centie.net/ Øhttp://www.bt.com/broadband Øhttp://www.aimia.com Øhttp://www.blizzard.com Øhttp://www.forrester.com Øhttp://intel.com Øhttp://www.apple.com Øhttp://www.nokia.com Ø(Dec 2003) "Broadband Net connection top 3m", Metro Newspaper