Paper Info
Title
Broadband to the home (BTTH): architectures, access methods, and the appetite for it
Abstract
The demand for high-volume data transfer to the home for interactive multipurpose residential multimedia applications (such as tele-education, interactive on-demand entertainment, home shopping, browsing the World Wide Web to retrieve up-to-date information) and telecollaboration, including telecommuting to work, are continuously increasing. Technological advances and the 1996 Telecommunications (Deregulation) Act allow both telephone and television service providers to compete in each other's territory for providing broadband services to the home (BTTH). BTTH refers to broadband data services which may or may not use a high bandwidth link. It essentially gives the end user an impression or feeling that megabit-rate data transmission is occurring to/from the terminal, so the benefits of broadband services are enjoyed at the most convenient time within the comforts of home. It can be achieved for example, by using twisted pair copper wire telephone line using various types of digital subscriber line (xDSL) modems installed at both ends of the line. Issues and challenges of BTTH are discussed, in addition to describing future position(s) of the traditional service providers
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1109/65.567570
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Telephony,Multimedia systems,Web sites,Information retrieval,Teleworking,TV,Bandwidth,Data communication,Copper,Wire
Journal
11
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0890-8044
16
PageRank 
References 
Authors
5.93
5
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
B. Khasnabish14810.76