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News A is for ADSL Skype is touting its voice over IP (VoIP) technology for small businesses keen to work globally and keep costs down. According to Skype research, 30 per cent of its 309 million users use it for work and the company is trying to shed... [02 Jul 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News A is for ADSL The government has renewed its threat to introduce laws to force ISPs to control online music and film piracy and file-sharing. But the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has hit back, warning the government that... [18 Jun 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study A is for ADSL A project to tackle digital exclusion in socially deprived regions of Merseyside has brought free plug-and-play internet access to hundreds of homes with children of school age. The project is aiming to give digitally excluded... [17 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News A is for ADSL Young people are getting almost half of their music collection through illegal means. Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year-old now has almost 900 illegal tracks each... [16 Jun 2008]
Broadband pace lagging in the countryside
News Fastest after London are: the North East (3.6Mbps), the North West (3.4Mbps) and the East Midlands (3.3Mbps) - suggesting there is a rural vs urban split based on ADSL speed. LLU has been key to achieving faster broadband speeds in the short term... [04 Jun 2008]
Rural fat pipe claims - "beggars belief"
News The digital divide is about availability and the fact remains that, in a significant number of rural areas, ADSL broadband access is simply not available. Worsley went on to claim that the CLA was being contacted increasingly by rural businesses... [28 May 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment A is for ADSL Looking at the headline in The Guardian this week and you'd be forgiven for thinking something momentous has happened to Broadband Britain today: 'Fears of digital divide groundless as online access soars in rural areas', it proclaims. [23 May 2008]
National Work from Home Day: A blessing or a curse?
News I finally give up on my home computer mid morning after seeing if my work laptop will connect wirelessly to my ADSL router. In honour of National Work from Home Day, the silicon.com team stayed out of the office to find out just how easy it is to... [16 May 2008]
Euro e-health getting the right attention
News A is for ADSL An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority (87 per cent) of European doctors use a computer - and almost half (48 per cent) have a broadband connection. The report - entitled Benchmarking ICT use among General Practitioners in... [28 Apr 2008]
BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software
News A is for ADSL BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer relationship management... [22 Apr 2008]
Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010
News A is for ADSL The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi... [21 Apr 2008]
Europe embracing speedy fat pipes
News A is for ADSL More than a quarter of a billion Europeans regularly use the internet with around 80 per cent of those people being hooked up to broadband connections. Around three-quarters (77 per cent) of businesses in Europe are now using high... [18 Apr 2008]
Tesco to launch iTunes challenger
News A is for ADSL Tesco is launching an online music service next month with more than three million tracks available to download and more content to follow. Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window Media format with around half... [15 Apr 2008]
A Dual-Path TEQ Structure for DMT-ADSL Systems
White Paper Discrete Multitone (DMT) modulation is the industry standard for Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Loop (ADSL) modems. DMT modulation allows for simplified equalization when the effective duration of the channel memory is shorter that the predefined... [10 Apr 2008]
Introduction to ADSL
White Paper Today, superior data capacities can be achieved at a relatively low cost using Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology. Until recently, the available methods for transmitting and receiving data at high capacity were equally high-cost. [10 Apr 2008]
