Beginner - Advanced Level Users.
DSL (Digital Subscriber Lines) is a pure digital telecommunications link that transforms ordinary telephone lines into high-speed data connections. Digital Subscriber Lines is a technology that maximises on the concept that digital data does not require change into analogue form and back again.
Digital data is transmitted to your computer directly as digital data, and this allows the phone company to use a much wider bandwidth for transmitting to you. The signal can also be separated so that some of the bandwidth is used to transmit an analogue signal so that you can use your telephone and computer on the same line and at the same time.
This book is a soup to nuts guide to the technology, concepts, business advantages, installation and utilisation behind this high-speed Internet connection. It is written in the tradition of the 'Bible' series - comprehensive in coverage and easy to understand.