Comments on: Telecommunications are Very Important http://www.fundacioncetelco.org/telecommunications-are-very-important/ Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Myo N http://www.fundacioncetelco.org/telecommunications-are-very-important/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Myo N Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:14:50 +0000 http://www.fundacioncetelco.org/telecommunications-are-very-important/#comment-180 The reality is that internet traffic and good old fashioned long distance phone calls travel in much the same way. Many phone calls even on copper home lines will spend part of thier journey as digital data over data networks. It is a cheaper way to move data and sound overall. So the truth is that large phone companies are also large internet companies. Much of thier infrastructure works the same in every case. Broadband access now is generally accepted as a term for high speed internet access, but that is not ideally correct. Broadband access is an older net term. It essentially means that you will be using a broad (wide) band (selection of frequencies) to communicate. Often a phone, cable, fiber optic wire... is capabale of transmitting many frequecies of signal of the media (wire). You could then broadcast a tv signal using 100 frequencies, 100 for radio (music) and then use the rest to transmit web data. Sortof having three flavors of water come out of one hose. The flipside would be say old dial up. Due to the fact that it is limited to how "wide" thier frequencies are. This is because frequencies are narrow to just caputure the range of a voice. The reality is that internet traffic and good old fashioned long distance phone calls travel in much the same way. Many phone calls even on copper home lines will spend part of thier journey as digital data over data networks. It is a cheaper way to move data and sound overall.

So the truth is that large phone companies are also large internet companies. Much of thier infrastructure works the same in every case.

Broadband access now is generally accepted as a term for high speed internet access, but that is not ideally correct.

Broadband access is an older net term. It essentially means that you will be using a broad (wide) band (selection of frequencies) to communicate. Often a phone, cable, fiber optic wire… is capabale of transmitting many frequecies of signal of the media (wire). You could then broadcast a tv signal using 100 frequencies, 100 for radio (music) and then use the rest to transmit web data. Sortof having three flavors of water come out of one hose.

The flipside would be say old dial up. Due to the fact that it is limited to how "wide" thier frequencies are. This is because frequencies are narrow to just caputure the range of a voice.

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