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The usage of the Internet grows at a vast rate. It emerged from commercial organizations, mainly through the killer applications, such as e-mail and WWW access. The applications of it, and people’s dependence on it, also increases. It has now been well established in commercial organization, but the next major growth will be into the home. For this the demand for bandwidth is ever increasing as video and audio requires much larger bandwidth requirements than can be delivered over a standard modem.
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Buchanan, W.J. (2004). ADSL and Cable Modems. In: The Handbook of Data Communications and Networks. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-7870-5_58
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