TV Over the Internet Pushes Broadband Growth

VOA special english 原始地址：http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/science-technology/Broadband-Subscribers-Pass-500-Million-in-July-111754629.html

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Representatives from some of the world's leading broadband service providers and equipment manufacturers met in San Diego, California, last week. They talked about the future of broadband and the Internet protocols that govern it. Broadband is a high data rate connection to the Internet.

【 上周，一些来自世界领先宽带服务的提供者和设备制造商的代表们齐聚加利福尼亚的圣迭戈。他们讨论了宽带的未来和支配宽带的网际协议(译者:也就是IP协议)。宽带是一种互联网的高速数据连接。】

A group called Broadband Forum organized the meeting. It was the group's fourth meeting this year. The Broadband Forum has almost two hundred members from around the world. They work to develop broadband network standards across the industry.

【 一个名为宽带论坛组织了这次会议。这个这个组织今年的第四次会议。这个宽带论坛大约有来自全世界的200位会员。他们致力于发展整个行业的宽带网络的标准。】

Laurie Adams Gonzalez is the marketing director for Broadband Forum. She says the group has been helping service providers move to the newest Internet Protocol, known as IPv6. Mrs. Gonzalez says the current version of the Internet, known as IPv4, could soon run out of space.

【 小明是这个宽带论坛的销售总监。她说这个组织一直致力于帮助网络服务提供者遵守最新的网际协议，这个最新的网际协议就是被大家所熟知的IPv6。小明说如今网际协议的版本还是IPv4，这个网际协议将会没有足够的IP够大家使用。】

LAURIE ADAMS GONZALEZ: "There is only eight percent of the IPv4 numbers left in the world and so there has been a very time sensitive need for service providers to be able to support a whole new numbering scheme."

【 小明说：“世界上，目前IPv4协议只剩下8%。所以，现在正是网络服务提供者拿出一个全新的编号方案的时刻了。”】

Broadband is one of the fastest growing areas of the telecommunications industry. A report from the Broadband Forum says the number of broadband subscribers reached four hundred ninety-eight million worldwide in June. By the third week of July it had passed five hundred million. That represents one in five homes worldwide.

【 宽带是通讯产业发展最迅速的方向之一。一份来自宽带论坛的报告称在六月份宽带服务的用户人数到达了4.98亿。到7月份的第三周数量已经到达了5亿。这表示在世界范围内，每五家就有一家在使用宽带。】

Mrs. Gonzalez says much of the growth has come from an unexpected source.

【 小明说大部分的增长来自一个没有意料到的来源。】

LAURIE ADAMS GONZALEZ: "One of the things that we're really seeing with broadband is that there are markets opening up, especially for emerging and developing countries that they would have never had an audience for."

【 小明说：“有意见东西我们正在切切实实的看到就是宽带的市场正在打开，特别是对于那些新兴的和发展中国家他们将会有更大的客户群。”】

Asia represents almost forty-one percent of the total broadband subscriptions. More than one hundred twenty million of those subscribers are in China.

【 亚洲几乎占据了宽带总用户的45%。中国的用户在其中有超过1.2亿。】

The report from the Broadband Forum also looked at Internet Protocol Television, or IPTV. IPTV is one of the main developments leading the growth in broadband.

【 这个来自宽带论坛的这份报告也着眼于网际电视协议，或者称作IPTV。IPTV一项是带动宽带业务增长的主业务。】

IPTV uses fast broadband connections to bring television programs into homes. It normally requires a subscription and a special box on top of the television.

【 IPTV使用快速的宽带连接使电视节目在千家万户播放。这通常需要用户在自己的点上面放个特殊的盒子（-_|||原来是高清数码网络电视）】

The forum report said IPTV subscriptions had grown to more than thirty-eight million by the end of June. France has the highest number of IPTV subscribers at more than nine million. China and the United States are next, with an average of more than six million subscribers each.

【 论坛还报到说IPTV的用户已经在上个6月底增长到超过3800万。法国以IPTV 9百万的用户数量而高居榜首，接下来是中国和美国，他们各自平均有6百万的用户。】

The Broadband Forum will release its latest usage report sometime this month. More growth is expected for both broadband and IPTV.

【 宽带论坛这个月的时候还将发布最近的使用报告。更多的增长将体现在宽带和IPTV上。】

And that's the VOA Special English Technology Report, written by June Simms. I'm Steve Ember.

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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.

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