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To: axial who wrote (10591)2/28/2001 12:17:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio  Respond to of 12823
 
Hi Folks ;)

I recall a time when "broadband" was a term reserved for data applications that hijacked coaxial facilities and operated at 48 kb/s through various FDM techniques. This was in an age when modem speeds over 1800 BITS per second were considered classified.

During the Seventies, broadband (using T carrier spans) through the use of oversampling topped out at 200 kb/s. In the Eighties, T1s through T3s were considered wideband, and T3 (44.736 Mb/s) and higher was considered broadband. Today, every dip$#!+ reseller with a product that purports to operate above 53.6 kb/s is touting broadband. I'll leave it at that.

FAC



To: axial who wrote (10591)2/28/2001 12:17:12 AM
From: Peter Ecclesine  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 12823
 
Hi Jim,

I did look in Newton's Telecommunications Dictionary for definitions of
'wideband' and 'broadband' once upon a time, and the one thing everyone
agrees on is broadband is faster than wideband. ;-)

petere


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