Research documents
Communities around the world have different approaches towards becoming smart, innovative and competitive. What works? And why? Does broadband deployment result in macro-economic growth? Should governments take a lead in e-community development or is this to be considered to be market interference? All this is only a small selection out of the many questions that have emerged within INEC Communities and beyond. Much research is currently being undertaken. Samples and copies of relevant reports of such research is frequently published in this section of the INEC site...
European Municipality FttH and Fiber backbone projects
In Europe many cities and other local governments are involved with next generation networks. This fiber overview is compiled by Dirk van der Woude (Program manager FttH & broadband services, City of Amsterdam) and through Citynet connected to INEC. Dirk is a well known figure in the international community of broadband developments. His drive in the field of promoting open networks and real broadband deployment is an example to many municipal officials.
20/08/2007
FttX-in-Europe-August-2007-A.pdf (634.73 kB)
Kenniswijk: Final Report
As per September 30, 2005, the successful Kenniswijk Project in the Netherlands formally came to an end. The Kenniswijk project has produced more than one hundred innovative and/or broadband services. Further, Kenniswijk provided the location for the first Fiber to the Home infrastructure in the Netherlands thus creating an example and lessons upon other communities have been able to build since. As per today, the English language report of the Kenniswijk project and the lessons learned are published here.
17/11/2005
Final Report Kenniswijk.pdf (4.96 MB)
Report: Broadband Services in G7 (and beyond)
Attached is a report (June 2005) on reseearch conducted in order to examine the market for sophisticated broadband services across the G71, Australia, Ireland, South Korea and Sweden. This report summarises Analysys’s findings on the performance of these countries regarding both the availability (coverage) and usage of sophisticated broadband services. The availability (coverage) data is estimated at the end of the first quarter of 2005. The usage data is estimated to the end of 2004. The report can be downloaded below.
22/06/2005
International Broadband Benchmarking: a Research Report
A new report (May 2005) has been published on research commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, benchmarking & comparing broadband deployment worldwide. You can download the document below.
22/06/2005
How much is an Exabyte?
If you just got used to thinking in terms of Gigabytes, than try to picture this: what would you do with 1000.000.000 Gig? For starters, it has a name. It's called an Exabyte. What anyone would want to do with an Exabyte is unclear. But by estimate it has been calculated that 5 'Exas' would be enough to store all words ever spoken by all human beings on earth.
29/04/2005
New ITU Statistics on Global "Broadband" Penetration
ITU has just released its new statistics on global broadband penetration per 100 inhabitants as of 1 January 2005. Korea and Hong Kong, China have kept the top rankings they received in 2004. The Netherlands makes an impressive move from 9th in ranking in 2004 to 3rd this year.
20/04/2005
Report: USA should prioritize providing gigabit networks
The United States should deploy widespread wired and wireless gigabit
networks as a national priority, according to a white paper from the
IEEE-USA Committee on Communications and Information Policy (CCIP).
19/04/2005
Incubating Bio-Industry: Stockholm's Success Story
In ensuring tomorrow's viability and innovation, many communities seek to host and attract bio-industry by means of vrious incentives. While "Bio Eldorados" see the light of day around the world, one successful approach can be found in Stockholm.
08/04/2005
Malaysian Government sets the example in embracing smart community development
The Malaysian government believes in leading by example and the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Electronic Government Flagship Application is one of its efforts to lead Malaysians into accepting and adopting ICT in their daily lives.
08/04/2005
European FTTH Developments and the Role of Public Private Partnerships
"Central and local governments have many different opportunities to stimulate FTTH, varying from subsidies and grants, to the bundling their own demand and offer that to new operators which are willing to create a new fibre based infrastructure. Also the government ownership of a company that actually owns the fibre infrastructure, can work well."
08/04/2005