With speeds typically up to 10 megabits per second, in many villages the mobile network could prove a better way of accessing the internet, particularly for high bandwidth activities such as watching videos, than fixed-line broadband.
As an alternative to video acquisition, the filtered video output signal is used to determine worm activity, yielding a system that allows image acquisition in combination with a low-bandwidth activity measurement.
However, if you could not afford to pay for access to these fast lanes, your ability to engage in high-bandwidth activities would suffer, as these new managed services would receive priority over the so-called "public internet".
This means SuperTower can handle large numbers of people engaging in high-bandwidth activities, like streaming videos.
But the company says it's the "industry's first Gigabit Draft N router" to use Quality of Service (QoS) Technology, which basically juggles data traffic so higher-bandwidth activities get priority -good to have if you're gaming or using a VoIpriority -good wireless.
This bandwidth intensive activity is frowned upon by some ISPs who will try to throttle BitTorrent traffic.
Providing enough bandwidth for activities like videoconferencing is one area where infrared has an advantage; the radio spectrum is tightly regulated so only certain frequencies can be used for data transmission.
However the device-types these hungriest of data-hungry mobile users are conducting their bandwidth hogging activities on has seen a bit of a shift.
"Bandwidth-intensive activities not only degrade other less-intense uses, but also significantly interfere with thousands of Internet companies' businesses".
The volume will only increase as new mobile devices are developed and people use them to watch movies and do other bandwidth-intensive activities.
