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Technology Stocks : ACTM $100 Million Cable Modem Contract with MOT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Leman who wrote (447)	2/18/1998 5:11:00 PM
From: Kent C.	Respond to of 1250

Cable Modems vs. ADSL: From: investor1.com Connection Selection There almost seems to be as many was to be connected to the Internet, as their are Internet Service Providers. New technology keeps pushing the benchmark up, from 9.6k to 14.4k and upward. Today, the most common personal connection is a 28.8k modem. Then the next logical step would be a 52k modem, or is it? Many new options have become available from the cable and telephone giants, such as BCTel's ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) phone lines and (in Canada) the Rogers / Shaw WAVE cable modem. Lets chart the actual performance of these new options versus the current technology. Connection Speed (in Megabytes) 28.8 0.288 56k 0.056 ISDN 0.064 to 0.128 Cable (WAVE) Modem 1.5 to 3.0 ADSL 1.0 to 4.0 T1 1.54 T3 45.0 OC3 155.0 With the WAVE cable connection, you get a 24 hour on line connection to the Internet that you never have to turn off, and you won't tie up an expensive phone line. That also means no busy signals! The ADSL connection offers potentially greater speeds than its cable counter-part, but the major technical limitation with ADSL is distance. Customers who live more than four kilometres from the nearest telephone switching office may not be able to take advantage of ADSL technology. That's because ADSL has only enough power to transmit data very quickly through copper wires over a limited distance. Until ADSL lines improve, the best choice for personal and most small business use is the Cable WAVE Modem. Complete Article with charts and graphs: investor1.com