| Life without computers and the Internet is | | | | use of heavy applications at a faster pace by |
| unimaginable for modern society. From education to | | | | enhancing the rate of sending and receiving data. |
| business and domestic to commercial matters, the | | | | DSL, cable, wireless, satellite and ISDN Internet |
| World Wide Web has become an integral part of life, | | | | technologies have revolutionized the concept of |
| and our dependency on it cannot be denied. | | | | accessing the web. Various Internet Service Providers |
| With the Internet ever expanding, the applications | | | | (ISPs) offer one or all forms of access technology, |
| supported are becoming larger every day. From | | | | as per the requirements and budget of the final |
| animation and high quality graphics and pictures, to | | | | consumer. While dial-up connections are still the least |
| movies and music videos, the data being exchanged | | | | expensive, newer technologies offer more services |
| is rapidly increasing. Being larger in size, these types | | | | at competitive prices. Earlier, accessing the Internet |
| of files may typically take minutes to hours to | | | | required a fixed-point connection, whether from |
| download with conventional Internet access | | | | home or the office. Now, satellite broadband and |
| technologies. | | | | wireless Internet have overcome this restriction, |
| With the demand for Internet access accelerating, | | | | making it possible to access the net while on the |
| novel methods are being devised to ensure | | | | move as well. |
| hassle-free Internet access. From the traditional | | | | With these cutting-edge technologies, and more in |
| method of accessing the Internet via telephone lines, | | | | the pipeline, high speed Internet access has |
| to the latest technology of satellite and wireless web | | | | undergone a dynamic transformation, giving |
| access, Internet access technology has indeed come | | | | unprecedented impetus to the concept of the World |
| a long way. New Internet technologies facilitate the | | | | Wide Web. |