Dream of tomorrows´ broadband multimedia pipeline

Author

Gajda, Bart ; Rajaravivarma, V.

Author_Institution

Comput. Electron., Sch. of Technol., Central Connecticut State Univ., New Britain, CT, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

16-18 March 2003

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

28

Abstract

It is very easy to forget how far last mile transport technology has come along; we get used to new things very quickly. Just yesterday we were all dialing in on 14.4 kbps modems and today do not seem too impressed with standard DSL or cable modem rates. We are always hungry for more bandwidth as computer power grows, and the new best thing coming seems to be BPON. The paper reflects on some of the most popular last mile technologies from the past all the way to the future; it also reflects the idea of never abandoning the older technologies as they have molded the new ones. The paper first gives a short overview of older services like DDS, ISDN and dialup. It then reflects today´s transport, various versions of DSL and, finally, looks into the future of last mile transport, xPON.

Keywords

ISDN; broadband networks; digital subscriber lines; inter-computer links; optical fibre subscriber loops; reviews; technological forecasting; BPON; DSL; ISDN; broadband multimedia pipeline; cable modem rates; dialup modems; last mile transport technology; xPON; Amplitude modulation; Bandwidth; DSL; ISDN; Modems; Pipelines; Pulse circuits; Pulse modulation; Switches; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 2003. Proceedings of the 35th Southeastern Symposium on

ISSN

0094-2898

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7697-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.2003.1194523

Filename

1194523