Texas Instruments (TI) is opening a DSL (digital subscriber line) modem factory in Bejing, China, with Legend Group - the country's largest PC maker. The two companies will work together on a DSL consumer modem based on TI's DSL chips.
An alternative to ADSL is cable modem technology. Access is obtained through a high-speed modem installed on the private lines. It also estimates the rise in revenues through new DSL lines will jump from 166,500 in 1999 to 7.5 million in the same...
This compounds the problems of users experiencing a reduced level in their expected 512 Kbps connection speeds, as ADSL is a shared-capacity medium. Rickards said: "ADSL is a contended service, where up to 50 users have to share one 512 Kbps pipe.
It is all very well having 100 megabytes of storage space, for example, but this is of minimal comfort if it is only accessible over a modem link. What's more, a fully contended consumer ADSL line (50:1) gives a lower possible throughput than a...
A history written by IRC creator Jarkko Oikarinen said the concept grew out of chat technology for modem-based bulletin boards in the 1980s. Yener and Krishnamoorthy, both associate professors of computer science, wrote that their research would...
Dial-up access, the old connectivity chestnut, uses a modem connection and telephone line to dial into an ISP's node to establish a modem-to-modem link, usually to the internet. Back in the day you'd be lucky to get 56Kbps out of a dial-up modem...
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