电子与 及通信工程专业英语Unit 5 DSL—Digital Subscriber Line.pptVIP

Unit 5 DSL—Digital Subscriber Line;　　1．Introduction　　That familiar eeeeeeh ... du, du, du, du, du ... screech that your dial-up modem makes when you connect to the internet is rapidly becoming a sound of the past, not because of the annoying screech but because of the demand for greater bandwidth and faster Internet connections.　　Most mid-level home and small office computers are capable of more than 1?GHz processing and are only seriously hampered when they log into a dial-up Internet connection. ;The analogue telephone frequency range has a limited bandwidth, so if data communication equipment is limited to only use that range, then only small amounts of information can be sent and received over the phone line at one time. In the same way that more lanes on a highway enable more cars to travel on it at one time, broadband telecommunication enables a wide band of frequencies or channels to transmit information concurrently on a wire, which means more information can be sent in a given amount of time.;　　There are a number of broadband access platforms, but the one with the most rapid uptake is DSL. Other broadband platforms include ISDN, Leased Lines, terrestrial broadcast, cable and cable modem, satellite, fiber optic, fixed wireless access (FWA), mobile wireless and powerlines [1]. The first quarter of 2004 saw 9.5 million new DSL lines worldwide, which is almost double the DSL uptake for the same period in 2003, taking the total number of DSL subscribers worldwide to more than 73 million. ;　　China has the largest DSL population in the world with almost 14 million subscribers in the first quarter of 2004, followed by Japan and the USA. In global terms, the Asia Pacific region has 29.34 percent of all DSL subscriptions, followed by the European Union with 28.18 percent.　　Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is a broadband connection that uses the existing telephone line. DSL provides high-speed data transmissions over the twisted copper wire, the so-called “last mile”