Digital subscriber line (DSL)
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Digital subscriber line (DSL) |
A technology for delivering high bandwidth to homes
and businesses using standard telephone lines. Though
many experts believed that standard copper phone
cabling would never be able to support high data rates,
local phone companies are deploying equipment that is
capable of supporting up to theoretical rates of 8.4Mbps.
Typical throughput downstream (from the provider to
the customer) are rates from 256Kbps to 1.544Mbps. DSL
lines are capable of supporting voice and data simultaneously.
There are many types, including HDSL (high bitrate
DSL) and VDSL (very high bit-rate DSL).
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