This chapter will take a critical personal look at traditional and future potential broadband markets, consider competing technologies, and try to argue whether or not any significant network market exists in each case. While there may be no single 'killer application' that will justify a high-speed network on its own, there are many services that add together to give traffic demand, and some services that can soak up whatever bandwidth is available, if the price is right.

Inspec keywords: telecommunication traffic; computer network performance evaluation; broadband networks

Other keywords: broadband network market; traffic; high-speed network; broadband services

Subjects: Computer communications