ADSL Glossary?
ADSL – asymmetric digital subscriber line ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) – an ultra-high-speed, cell-based data transmission protocol which may be run over ADSL BROADBAND – A transmission medium or channel that has a wider bandwidth than one voice channel (with a carrier wave of a certain modulated frequency). It allows multiple services like voice, data, video, etc. to transmit over the network. CONTENTION – refers to the number of people who share the same local loop as yourself. This means that the higher the contention rate, the slower the ADSL network will become at peak periods. This is one reason why we regard the Ethernet ADSL variant as being the superior product because of its low contention ratio of 20:1 DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. A process by which a machine assigns a single IP address to a PC on a network. This IP address is taken from a ‘pool’ of addresses. The PC would be set up to receive its IP address ‘dynamically’ via its networking settings. This
