What does POTS mean and how does it work with SBC DSL Internet Access as a newly featured product?
POTS is an acronym which stands for Plain Old Telephone Service. POTS lines, which generally consist of 2 to 4 wires, are what we use everyday to place phone calls and make analog connections to the Internet. DSL technology also uses POTS lines for Internet connectivity but with a different method. The difference in transfer speeds and overall functionality of the analog versus DSL technology does not reside in the line. Instead, the difference in product performance has to do with the difference in the line frequencies used for analog versus DSL technology (analog uses 3.4 kHz and DSL technology uses up to 1.2 MHz), the equipment (analog modem versus a NIC, bridge, splitter combination), and the Network configuration (Circuit Switch Network Vs Cell Relay Network).
