Broadband Technology
... The latest technology to set the pace for current decade would be the Broadband. When the Internet was started, the technology used by all the users was normally narrowband, which is accessing the Internet using the modem and a normal phone line. However in the current period this narrowband technology has become quite poor. In this report, it would be discussed in detail what the Broadband is about and why it would completely replace the narrowband technology in a few years. OVERVIEW OF NARROWBAND IN THE CURRENT PERIOD: As we have discussed earlier, Narrowband technology is simply using the Internet with a simple modem and a phone line. ... THE NEED FOR SOMETHING BETTER: As the technology advanced the network applications started involving heavy graphics and audio/video communications. ... Then came the answer in shape of the Broadband. BROADBAND TECHNOLOGY: Broadband means, very simply, a high-speed connection to the Internet. ... It is called broadband because it has a much larger capacity to receive and send data than a standard 56k (or narrowband) connection.