Broadband Technologies
July 11th, 2007
Broadband Technologies offer a single point access to several services in an office, for example unified network would combine services offered separately by an EPABX system a fax line, servers for corporate internet access. Of course, ISDN lines (Integrated services digital network) have been in use for years which, at rudimentary level, managed to combine voice, video and data.
Internet protocol (IP) has made convergent networks not only technological possible, but also commercially viable. Conventional telecom networks (often dismiss as POTS – plain old telephony systems) are analog networks, which treat electrical frequency as a continuous wave form. IP on the other hand has introduced packet switching technology, which treat all mood of communication as packet of 0’s and 1’s. so, be it video, voice or data, all of it broken into packets of two digits. Broadband network can be open up new vistas of product and services which will be done through a single device at home. Broadband technologies are making their mark in telephony. VoIP (Voice over internet protocol) uses the same internet protocol to offer telephone line which costs very little compared to a normal telephone line. It is not be confused with internet telephony which refers to using your browser to make a telephone call; VoIP
calls for setting up specific IP telephony exchanges.
The application of broadband technology include voice, video and multimedia streaming, broadcast TV and radio interactive gaming and real time video conference. Other broadband technologies being deployed are ATM (asynchronous transfer mode), DSL (Digital subscriber line). ISDN and WAN (wide area network) technologies. ATM and wan technology link up computers over a specific area, largely meant to function as a network point, while other technologies are directly aimed at users.
ADSL, RADSL, SDSL, HDSL and so are different forms of the generic technology. DSL can use the telephone cable and still offer connectivity at speed higher then the internet cable. A dial-up modem connection can be possibly pump data at 56.6 kbps (Kilobits per second) while internet through cable can optimally deliver 256 kbps. Now, ADSL can deliver 1 mbps (Megabits per second) which is four time faster than internet through cable.
offer a single point access to several services in an office, for example unified network would combine services offered separately by an EPABX system a fax line, servers for corporate internet access. Of course, ISDN lines (Integrated services digital network) have been in use for years which, at rudimentary level, managed to combine voice, video and data.
Internet protocol (IP) has made convergent networks not only technological possible, but also commercially viable. Conventional telecom networks (often dismiss as POTS – plain old telephony systems) are analog networks, which treat electrical frequency as a continuous wave form. IP on the other hand has introduced packet switching technology, which treat all mood of communication as packet of 0’s and 1’s. so, be it video, voice or data, all of it broken into packets of two digits. Broadband network can be open up new vistas of product and services which will be done through a single device at home. Broadband technologies are making their mark in telephony. VoIP (Voice over internet protocol) uses the same internet protocol to offer telephone line which costs very little compared to a normal telephone line. It is not be confused with internet telephony which refers to using your browser to make a telephone call; VoIP calls for setting up specific IP telephony exchanges.
ADSL, RADSL, SDSL, HDSL and so are different forms of the generic technology. DSL can use the telephone cable and still offer connectivity at speed higher then the internet cable. A dial-up modem connection can be possibly pump data at 56.6 kbps (Kilobits per second) while internet through cable can optimally deliver 256 kbps. Now, ADSL can deliver 1 mbps (Megabits per second) which is four time faster than internet through cable.







