NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| reply to Mordhem
Re: I remember when Comcast did the same thing..... said by Mordhem:Verizon uses technology invented in the 1870 here. Really? They had ADSL in 1870?
Voice over copper was patented in 1876.
TV over coax was invented ~1948.
Ethernet was invented in 1973-1975.
When it was invented, Ethernet was available as:
10Base5 (ThickLAN coax)
10Base2 (ThinLAN; RG-58U coax)
10BaseT (UTP; Unshielded Twisted Pair)
Consumer ADSL was first tested in 1988.
DOCSIS 1.0 specs weren't issued until March 1997.
So there is really not that much difference in age between the technologies in use (ADSL and DOCSIS); about nine years. All developed contemporaneously in the last 25 years of the twentieth century.
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Norman
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