. - Connectivity 2015

The GVF with Supporting Organisation - APEX

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Introduction to the Connectivity Context

Being connected to the Internet, whenever you want, wherever you are, wherever you’re going to, and however you’re getting there, with broadband data speeds, has become a universal mantra in the service delivery goals and user expectations of today’s digital telecommunications marketplace. In the metropolitan workplace and in the urban or suburban home, the multiple-tens of Mbps service has become commonplace with the deployment of fixed fibre-based infrastructures by telecoms service providers. But, increasingly, for an ever-growing proportion of an ever-more demanding user base, this is not enough, particularly as the user-to-device/terminal relationship continues its migration away from interfacing with desktop/laptop PCs with local hard drive data storage and towards interfacing with tablets and smartphones with increasing volumes of data storage in the Cloud. This is a migration which places an overwhelming emphasis on the opportunity for Internet connectivity and access to multimedia services which meet the seemingly insatiable demand for increasingly video-based enterprise and social media applications, whilst the user is entirely mobile, whether pounding the urban street, taking a country stroll, driving a vehicle, riding a train, flying on a plane, or taking a trip across the sea.