The industrial organization Broadband Forum, which is studying the development of broadband networks reports that the majority of broadband users (61.5%) visit web pages through DSL technology. Market share for fiber technologies (FTTx) - now at 16 percent - is fast catching up with cable’s 19.5 percent. According to company’s experts by the end of Q3 2011 the number of broadband subscribers exceeded 581 million people worldwide, a quarterly increase of 3.08 percent, and an annual growth rate of 12.89 percent,. Remind that earlier, according to preliminary estimations of iSuppli experts, by 2011 there were about 600 million high-speed Internet subscribers, and analysts predicted that by the end of 2012 their number would reach 676 million. Moreover, Broadband Forum experts say that in the near future G-PON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network), which provides speeds of up to 1 Gbit /sec, will be one of the most promising technologies of the Internet access.