The operator, who controls a third of the UK cable market, said today it had taken a strategic decision to concentrate on its own cable network. Major cable operator NTL has tried ADSL services over BT lines, but it too has decided to sell only...
One, armed with a huge drill, handled the cabling, easily running a line from my main cable point to a home office, another installed the necessary software on my computer. Upstream rates are theoretically slower for cable modem-based services...
Ideally, we need thinner cables that can still carry large volumes of data and we need active devices with very low power requirements that can be fed along the data cables. That way, it would be much easier to build a cabling tree that drastically...
Power cables are not physically symmetrical and are therefore very effective antennas. Power cables employ low-grade plastic that is unfriendly to high-frequency signals as the absorption per unit length is very high.
The fundamental problem stems from the point economics employed - it is extremely difficult to justify the installation of anything new when you have an established base of copper cables. The cables were originally designed for speech signals and...
Other new features include an enhanced contact book and the ability to save draft emails, a function previously absent from the Gmail offering. Google seems set to create revenue streams beyond advertising, with the quiet release of four new...