Communication Technology Update, 10/e, 10th Edition

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BROADBAND TECHNOLOGIES

Lon Berquist, M.A.*

Broadband technologies impact the way we receive information and entertainment, as well as the way we communicate. Traditional telephone networks and cable system architectures have been transformed by the evolution in broadband capabilities. Broadband enhancements have developed beyond merely providing high-speed Internet connectivity, culminating in the true convergence of video, data, and voice services over a single wire. Today, broadband technologies provide the bandwidth facilitating faster Internet speeds allowing greater multimedia content on the World Wide Web and enabling residential voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and Internet protocol television (IPTV). Because broadband technologies ...