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Data can generally travel the speed of light unless networks are congested. When there's congestion, usually the cheapest and best thing is simply to add capacity generally, not to prioritize certain sites over others.

— Marvin Ammori

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✓Similar Perspectives

Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.

— Blake Farenthold

Incidentally, think about the ramifications of storing data on light waves that can be stopped and started at the speed of light.

— Lene Hau

We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.

— Michael Oxley

A worldwide web of electronic connections now moves data at ever-increasing speed and volume along what we call the information superhighway.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

What I would like with the Internet is to have it go faster.

— James Wan

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.

— Tony Abbott

The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis.

— Jon Postel

If you are just using the service to look at Web sites and download e-mail, then a DSL line may be cheaper. It is when you have more data going out that wireless can make a difference.

— Blake Farenthold

We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.

— Mark Zuckerberg

✗Opposing Perspectives

To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to manipulate. So we make a perfect copy of the information carried by the light. We transfer it to matter - the condensate.

— Lene Hau