Hosts:
Dan Peters
David Ford
Grady Joslin
Excerpt:
On this week’s episode of Geekologist Deep Dish Radio, Dan, Dave, and Grady are talking data. The show starts out with a discussion about what kind of data is created in both the home and business environments, and what it is used for. The team then discuss the value of data in various business scenarios, such as product and customer data for retail shops, financial data for banks and credit card companies, and medical data in the health care industry. After a brief rant about software data collection and computer security, the discussion continues with the differences between structured and unstructured data, as well as a sneak peek of future episodes relating to data storage optimization and data availability.
So in todays day and age the internet is becoming more and more part of out everyday lives correct? Well in my case yes! So on thursday May 29th HiWEB-Interactive over at hiweb.net and I were talking about AT&T and where they plan to be with there data network in 4 years. I learned tons about some very interesting wireless technologies and here is a breakdown of the current and future wireless data technologies at their best!
Sprint and Verizon :
EV-DO Rev. A – 1.5- 3.1 Mbps download max! This means that Rev. A is only going to see these speeds that is it nothing more they are done.
Sprint and Verizon are investing in WiMax that will deliver 50Mbps to the end user by the year 2015.
AT&T :
UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA – 1.4 – 20Mbps! This current wireless technology is already in use in more major cities that AT&T is servicing! WOW 20Mbps. Well you might be saying why are we not seeing these speeds? It is because currently the overhead of the AT&T network is too high therefore we are only going to see 1.4.
AT&T plans on releasing HSPA that will bring the wireless devices closer to the 20Mbps by late 2009 and plans to have a full blown LTE (long term evolution) network set up by the end of 2012 bring 100Mbps data transfer speeds per handheld on the AT&T wireless network. So if you have a phone with AT&T keep it they are the leaders in the future of wireless voice and data coverage.