Broadband Applications and the Digital Home
A look at the ways consumers will use broadband access and what the key applications will be for provider and consumer.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Broadband Applications and the Digital Home
Part One: Delivery To The Home
Chapter List
- Chapter 1: Broadband Access Technologies
- Chapter 2: Satellite a New Opportunity for Broadband Applications
J G Turnbull
Part Overview
Access technologies are required to deliver the feature-rich multimedia content to the home. The two chapters in this first part describe, between them, the main access technologies of today and provide an interesting prologue to the digital home.
Chapter 1 Broadband Access Technologies
The first chapter is an overview of how to provide residential customers, and small businesses, with access to broadband services. It describes the different access technologies available today, and then goes on to give details of cable, wireless and satellite systems, with particular emphasis on the BT architecture for delivery of IP services over asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL). It explains the evolution of this two-wire delivery mechanism towards higher bandwidth hybrid fibre/copper access architectures using APON and VDSL.
The chapter closes by presenting a view of wireless broadband access networks, VDSL and the future. A number of broadband access technologies already exist and will continue to evolve, driven by consumer demand for greater bandwidth and speed at an acceptable cost.
Chapter 2 Satellite a New Opportunity for Broadband Applications
The second chapter looks, in particular, at satellite delivery of broadband Internet and multimedia content to the edge of the network or end user. Looking at the different delivery topologies, this chapter goes on to appraise the underlying protocol aspects on which these are built.
Satellite delivery is particularly attractive in areas of low...
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