Om’s post about better speeds from your broadband provider is music to my years. As a home based teleworker and global traveling nomad speed is my connectivity lifeline. poor broadband for me is the equal to a poor hair day.

But it’s his closing paragraph which really nails what the urgent part of having better pipe is all about. The upstream path.

Broadband 2.0 is all about collaboration and sharing, and that requires just as much upstream bandwidth

as it does downstream speeds. Regardless, that coming year is going to be fun as the cable companies and phone operators will do unnatural things to entice new subscribers, starting with offering faster connections at lower prices. Nothing wrong with that.

Basically for client companies like Vapps with their HiDef Conferencing, Yugma, SightSpeed, Truphone, Junction Networks, iotum, and their competitiors, the upstream improvements will really help manufacture for a much better user experience.

Original post by Andy Abramson