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Analysis Of The Competition Between Wired, DSL And Wireless TCP Flows In An Access Network
White Papers This setting is used to analyze the competition between wired and wireless users in an access network, where one class (the wired class) has no or small (like BER in DSL) transmission error losses whereas the other class has higher transmission...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
SBC Gets Boost From DSL And Wireless
News SBC Communications reported solid second-quarter results on Wednesday thanks to strong growth in its wireless and DSL businesses. For the June quarter, EarthLink reported 346,000 broadband subscribers, the majority of which are DSL subscribers, and...
[July 25, 2001, 15:46]
PSINet To Offer DSL Access To European Companies
News In an aggressive move, the company issued a challenge to BT and promised a DSL wireless option, using a microwave radio link. The company also plans to offer wireless DSL access through a partnership with Winstar Communications.
[October 12, 1999, 9:15]
WiMax Starting To Make Its Move
White Papers Cost, complexity and proprietary systems have held back wireless broadband services that would compete against DSL, cable modem and leased lines. For customers, wireless can mean fast and easy setup, lower cost than some services, and broadband...
[June 19, 2004, 20:00]
Future Of Wireless Broadband Is In The Air
Talkback As users really don't care what access technology provides them with a broadband connection it is difficult to see how Wi Max, or any other wireless technology, can dislodge DSL and cable from its dominant position (100m plus subscribers at the...
[January 26, 2004, 12:07]
Wireless To Play A 'major Role' In US Broadband Growth
News The Federal Communications Commission is stepping up efforts to establish wireless as a viable broadband option to cable and DSL in order to make high-speed Internet access available to all Americans by 2007.
[May 21, 2004, 9:10]
Milton Keynes Gets Commercial WiMax Service
News Run by a council-owned business called ConnectMK, the service offers local residents and businesses a wireless alternative to the relatively expensive symmetrical DSL (SDSL) connections. However, the commercial side of the business provides an...
[December 18, 2007, 15:57]
ADSL Only Suitable For BT, Says Research Firm
News Ovum's research compared the four main broadband technologies -- DSL, fixed wireless, cable and fibre -- and concludes ADSL will not be a viable alternative for rival telcos. However GartnerGroup research suggests users will not be prepared to pay...
[September 27, 2000, 14:18]
The Pub's The Hub For Community Broadband
News Baker claims that RuralMesh can provide wireless Internet access at speeds and prices comparable to DSL. RuralMesh will be targeted at rural areas where DSL and cable broadband aren't available. A wireless broadband service launched this month is...
[April 6, 2004, 16:05]
The Future Of Wireless review
Reviews Actual throughput was closer to 6Mbps, but that's still four times faster than the data streaming in through a typical DSL modem. This technology supports speeds as high as 70Mbps and a range of up to 30 miles, making it ideal for large corporate...
[March 10, 2004, 6:55]
Plan C For Failed Broadband Auction
News Experts believe, though, that significant interest in this third auction will come from 3G and DSL operators, rather than companies looking to provide broadband wireless access to consumers, as the government had hoped.
[October 15, 2002, 13:48]
Buffalo AirStation WBR-G54 review
Reviews It doesn't have a DSL interface, so you'd need an external Ethernet DSL gateway -- of which there are few available. Once into the interface, you're presented with three options: DSL, CATV (Cable modem) and Advanced.
[January 24, 2003, 17:04]
3G Is Dead, Says Mobile Phone Inventor
News We engineers knew years ago that 3G as presently constituted is essentially dead," said Cooper, speaking at the Broadband DSL Forum conference in Berlin. Surprisingly, for a panel session at the Broadband DSL Forum on the future of broadband, there...
[October 31, 2002, 14:53]
2010: A Broadband Odyssey
News They are also using wireless to bring broadband to people who live too far from the exchange to get DSL. DSL is great, and a fantastic improvement on dial-up, but we still have the issue that 10 to 20 percent of people won't be able to get ADSL.
[April 8, 2004, 16:30]
Poor Business Case Could Hobble WiMax
News In developed countries, rural towns without DSL or cable services appear to offer lucrative opportunities for WiMax services, with affluent customers and pent-up demand for broadband services," the authors note in the report, entitled The Business...
[November 6, 2006, 14:17]
The Frontier Of Broadband Wireless Access: WiMAX Technology
White Papers Based on the relatively new IEEE 802.16 standard, WiMAX broadband services are predicted to be less expensive than their wired counterparts - such as digital subscriber lines (DSL). And rural areas currently out of range of wired services, such as...
[August 2, 2005, 6:00]
Intel Deal Provides WiMax Boost
News The FCC has been active in its support of wireless broadband technologies, with WiMax being the leading candidate as a potential third option to DSL and cable. Backers of the technology believe that it can challenge DSL and cable broadband services...
[October 26, 2004, 9:20]
WiMax: The Saviour Of Rural Broadband?
News In that situation, WiMax does something that DSL can't. WiMax is still expensive compared to DSL or Wi-Fi, but it's getting less so. You get up to 280Mbps per base station -- enough to simultaneously support hundreds of businesses with T1/E1- type...
[April 5, 2004, 16:15]
Barrett: Chips With Everything
News DSL (digital subscriber line) and home fibre optics are on the rise in Japan, Barrett said. representatives were giving away DSL modems to shoppers along the street to encourage them to sign up for service.
[February 19, 2003, 11:25]
High-end Home Networking On Hold At Cisco And 3Com
News At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, 3Com began selling a new wireless add-on to cable and digital subscriber line (DSL) modems that will allow people to link their PCs. Phone companies that offer DSL, for example, still suffer...
[January 9, 2001, 16:18]
