DSL
Info - What
is DSL?
DSL is an acronym for Digital Subscriber Line.
This is a type of broadband Internet connection that
allows web surfers to navigate the
Internet several times faster than dial-up.
It has
a high
speed frequency that is more than 10 times faster than dial-up
connection. This kind of technology also uses telephone lines
to get connected and to bring information of high bandwidth to
consumers and to businessmen.
A
DSL Internet connection is usually accompanied with a modem.
A modem (or Terminal Adapter) is a device used to regulate the
radio signals that come in and out of any device while data
transmission is going on. This is patched to the computer’s CPU
and is subsequently attached to the cable wire of the telephone
company. However, DSL modems is different from ordinary modems.
Ordinary modems provide you with the maximum amount of 56
Kbps in terms of data exchange, lower to ISDN which can give up
to 128 Kbps. This is because the telephone company requires your
computer to change the analog signals into digital signals
first producing a low bandwidth. With DSL however,
the digital data is passed on directly to your
computer as digital data, thereby producing a higher bandwidth
and allowing higher Kbps rates that may even be higher than ISDN
and even cable.
 A
DSL line can accommodate voice signals as well as data
signals and the line’s data portion is said to be connected
all the time.
It
allows users to use both the telephone and the
Internet at the same time, unlike dial-up connection
in which either one cannot be used if the other is being
utilized.
DSL actually started in the year 1998 and has had a continuous
increase in the number of connections in many parts of the
world. The big companies such as Intel, Microsoft, and Compaq
have come up with G. Lite, which is a type of ADSL that is
easier to install and is described to be accelerating
deployment.
For
more useful DSL info, you can browse through the topics on
this site.
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