Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
The other promising candidate for a home broadband transmission medium is the telephone network. Of course, the conventional telephone modem already uses the phone network, but telephone companies thought they could get better performance if they used a different approach. The result of this effort is a communications form known as Digital Subscriber Line (DSL).
In fact, the twisted pair cabling used in telephone networks has much more capacity than is typically used for voice communication. The DSL transceiver, which acts as an interface from the local network to the telephone network, operates in a frequency range that doesn’t interfere with voice communication over the line. Consequently, DSL can operate continually ...
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