90 Percent Of Ohioans Have Access To Broadband, Study Says
Columbus Dispatch
June 27, 2008

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Tennessee, AT&T Partner to Develop E-Health Info System
Heartland Institute
July 2008

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Broadband Expansion Aids New Business Development
By Brenda Porter
June 23, 2008

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The Health IT Now! Coalition marked its first anniversary earlier this month by applauding the House Energy and Commerce Committee for holding a hearing on health information technology.  The Coalition was formed to expedite legislation that would advance deployment of Health IT.  House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell’s legislation, along with the Kennedy-Enzi legislation in the Senate, meet the Coalition’s goals of fostering the use of health information technology to save lives, reduce medical expenses and digitize U.S. health care.

The Health IT Now! Coalition urges Congress to pass legislation that:

• Establishes standards for interoperability, product certification and quality measures.

• Provides financial incentives to purchase and use health IT. 

• Provides patient education about electronic health. 

• Ensures security and privacy.

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According to a new white paper released this week by Cisco, video currently accounts for one quarter of all consumer Internet traffic and will make up 50% of such traffic within the next 4 years. The demand for online video is a major reason why the U.S. broadband industry invested $70 billion in broadband infrastructure in 2007. By way of comparison, when President Kennedy committed the United States to landing a man on the moon in ten years, the government spent approximately $10 billion per year – in today’s dollars – on the Apollo program. When President Eisenhower committed the nation to building an Interstate Highway System, the government spent approximately $25 billion per year – in today’s dollars.

While the entire white paper is a great read for anyone interested in the dramatic growth of bandwidth demand in general, there are several points that are especially noteworthy:

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The Renewed Allure Of Telecommuting
Information Week 
By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
June 18, 2008
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Cisco Projects Growth to Swell for Online Video
Wall Street Journal
By Bobby White
June 16, 2008

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Verizon Announces Launch of Broadband Network in Iowa for Emergency Effort 
TMCnet
June 17, 2008

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Granny B Goes Global
Baton Rouge Business Report
June 2, 2008

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Devices that deliver high-quality video over broadband networks are a hit with consumers. For example, Netflix, the pioneering online DVD rental service, recently rolled out its Netflix Player device which allows Netflix subscribers to access Netflix’s library of movies and TV shows instantly over their broadband connections.

Response to the new service has been enthusiastic, to say the least:

Less than one month after introducing a set-top box that allows “instant” viewing over a broadband connection, Netflix says that the current supply of devices has sold out. CEO Reed Hastings did not disclose any sales figures, but he told Bloomberg News that the company is pressing their supplier, Roku Inc., to step up production. The backlog of orders will reportedly take six to eight weeks to fulfill.

Devices such as the Netflix Player are increasingly finding their way into the nation’s living rooms. Without broadband, this kind of on-demand access to high-bandwidth content would not be possible.

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