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Digital Subscriber Line (Background)

Digital Subscriber Line DSL technology is a modem technology that uses existing twisted-pair telephone lines to transport high-bandwidth data, such as multimedia and video, to service subscribers. The term xDSL covers a number of similar yet competing forms of DSL, including ADSL, SDSL, HDSL, RADSL, and VDSL. xDSL is drawing...

Tags: VDSL, ADSL, xDSL, Digital Subscriber Line Technology, DSL, Broadband Internet, Modems, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Networking

White papers 1999-06-17

Additional Resources

How green is your DSL? Alcatel-Lucent sez theirs is brightest green

Green publication Environmental Leader is reporting that Alcatel-Lucent has introduced a high-capacity digital subscriber line DSL platform that uses up to 25 percent less power than conventional platforms. The vendor has achieved this power-savings by combining its latest DSL and DSLAM DSL Active Multiplexer technology with its Intelligent Services Access...

Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Alcatel, DSL, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-08

I've Seen the Future of Computing: It's a Screen.

In the not so far off future, computing for most of us will be reduced to remotely delivered subscriber services, running on cheap, commodity high-definition display units. The last few weeks have been a rush of virtualization and cloud-based announcements. In December, IBM...

Tags: Hypervisor, Thin Client, Virtual Desktop, Computing, Josef Konsumer, Screen, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-02-17

"WiMAX" the Future of Wireless Communication

The new era of communication, currently employed in some parts of the world, is Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access WIMAX. It is the latest technology which is approved by IEEE 802.16 group, which is a standard for point-to-multipoint wireless networking. Wimax vision is to deliver "Last mile" broadband connectivity to...

Tags: Wireless Communication, Wireless, Wimax Vision, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet

White papers 2009-01-01

Are you being gouged on your cable bill?

Are you being gouged on your cable bill?cableI was receiving the standard package about 50 channels, costing about 29.99 - in 8 months with no changes the cost escallated to 80.00, they lost a customer, there is no explaination for the cost increase, there is no one checking them either.COX...

Tags: Network technology, DirectTV, cable, cable company, Cox Cable

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs

Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...

Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Comcast CEO kinda, sorta gets there are "horrific" customer service problems

Comcast CEO kinda, sorta gets there are "horrific" customer service problemsHe doesnt get it...He is just adding a bigger band-aid with adding more call support staff. You need to step back and look at those 250 million calls and sort out the 10-100 reasons and work on resolving the...

Tags: Comcast Corp., cable, sorta, customer service, service call, cable industry

Discussion threads 2007-11-28

WiMax on the rocks: Sprint-Clearwire pact unravels

WiMax on the rocks: Sprint-Clearwire pact unravelsHow do these companies make money when WiMax < 1ghz is FREE IN USAHere is the thing. The US tax payers already have paid for broadband wireless internet and phone access in the < 1ghz spectrum. This is the spectrum currently dedicated to TV...

Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Transnational Big Business, Google Inc., WiMAX, Clearwire Corp., spectrum, Sprint Communications

Discussion threads 2007-11-09

Long Reach Passive Optical Networks

The paper discusses recent progress in the development of optically amplified, long reach passive optical networks, which aim to significantly reduce network complexity and cost by integrating metro and access into a single, all-optical communication system. Fiber-To-The-Premises FTTP has been envisaged for a long time as an attractive future access...

Tags: Optical Network, Network, Broadband, IEEE, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Video On Demand (VoD), Broadband Internet, Networking, Network Technology, Modems, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components

White papers 2007-11-05

WiMAX Opportunities in the Broadcast Environment

WiMAX is a fully integrated companion to the widely adopted Wi-Fi wireless broadband technology found in homes and businesses around the world. While Wi-Fi was developed to cover small areas such as a home, coffee shop or office floor, WiMAX is intended to deliver 'Last mile' wireless broadband access over...

Tags: Environment, Wireless Broadband, Wireless, WireIE, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Wireless LANs, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications

White papers 2007-10-04

Microsoft Patent app enables set-top box programming over Internet

A newly published Microsoft Patent application describe technology for remotely programming a set-top box for television.The Abstract for the Patent app Remotely Accessing and Programming A Set-Top Box offers this description:Systems and methods for remotely programming a set top box and for remotely scheduling an...

Tags: IPTV, microsoft

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Verizon's FiOS network: Payback time?

Verizon's FiOS network: Payback time?Happy subscriberI've had it for about 7 months now and am very satisfied. Higher speeds for internet access than Cablevision offered, more channels on the television, and I'm saving around $40 a month. So far, so good.Poor value ISP'sI had a FiOS 'salesman' come...

Tags: Corporate communications, Cable, Network technology, TVs, TV & Home Theater, network, Comcast Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Fios

Discussion threads 2007-04-30

DSL strikes a chord with frugal shoppers

DSL strikes a chord with frugal shoppersDigital DividePeople buy based on what they are willing to pay for, and it's a divide?Guys, the Marxist rhetoric is getting a bit old. I somehow don't see the proletariat uprising in massive riots over their failure to get cable internet at the same...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, DSL, cable, Fios, Comcast Corp., Mbps

Discussion threads 2006-06-16

Network Management System for DSL Network

Demand on local service providers, already greater than ever, continues to mount at an incredible pace. Rapid growth in fax transmissions, internet traffic and point-of-sales transactions call for greater bandwidth and additional lines. That's where Digital Subscriber Line DSL technology can play such an important role. The client, an European...

Tags: Network, NMS, Network Management, Aricent, DSL, Network Administration, Networking, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Fax, Telecommunications, Personal Technology

Case studies 2006-03-10

DSL operators added 5.2 mln, cable companies gained 4.4 mln broadband subscribers in 2005

The largest DSL providers added 5.2 mln subscribers in 2005, according to Leichtman Research Group. The major cable companies gained 4.4 mln high-speed Internet subscribers in 2004, for a total of 24.3 mln. Cable retained a narrowing lead in total subscribers over the phone-line based DSL technology, or digital subscriber...

Tags: DSL

Blog posts 2006-03-04

Broadband penetration isn't the whole story

Broadband penetration isn't the whole storyUhmmmmDial-up is not broadband, it's a fact that internet dial-up access in the US is very cheap, but they tried the same in the NL, only when people get used to the speeds delivered by broadband, they will never switch back. But that's easy talk...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, DSL, mobile Internet, broadband, telecommunications company, Dial-up, Dana

Discussion threads 2006-02-06

Cell-iPod "Mobile Me" combo appears likely

It appears quite likely that Apple is getting ready to release a cellular-enabled iPod.Either that, or an iPod-enabled cell phone.If not, then why did Apple, according to the San Francisco Chronicle's Ryan Kim, file four trademark applications earlier this month, covering such terms as "digital music," "cellular" and "communications?"The...

Tags: computer

Blog posts 2006-01-17

FCC clears way for Wimax on the Gulf

The FCC has cleared the way for Intel to deploy experimental Wimax technology to bring internet connectivity to parts of the Gulf Coast, Business Week reports. Intel shipped equipment Thursday to decommissioned Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio. A group of wireless business called Part15.org has...

Tags: WiMAX

Blog posts 2005-09-09

Comcast's Magnificent Seven: A deal too good to pass up?

As the summer winds down and I'm trying to beat the Fall rush of, well everything that goes with Fall, I've been trying to get my digital house in order and one of the items of my ToDo list has been to sort through all the services that my...

Tags: Comcast Corp.

Blog posts 2005-08-29

Who needs Wi-Fi when the plug in the wall will do?

Move over Wi-Fi. Here comes the HomePlug Power Alliance. With new backers such as Intel, Cisco via Linksys, and Motorola, the group which focuses on setting standards for delivering broadband connectivity via power lines BPL could be paving the way for your local electric utility to muscle out...

Tags: Wi-Fi

Blog posts 2005-08-25