The data-transmission rate will also double (each channel now carries only 64 kilobits a second, which accounts for the jerky pictures that the system produces).
About 1, 000 people and businesses already have the service, which provides datatransmission speeds at a minimum rate of 256 kilobits-per-second, 4.5 times faster than the speediest phone circuit.
The report indicates that bandwidth requirements of network-aggregation nodes are growing at an even faster rate than end-station applications, which initiate the transmission and receipt of data.