The Past History of DSL Internet
DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) is derived from ISDN (Integrated Digital Services Network). ISDN delivers digital services to individuals using telephone lines. DSL takes that phone line and recreates it as high speed deliverer of broadband. The DSL connections are capable of transferring around 24,000 kilobits per second.
What you (1) actually get can depend on your service provider, your telephone lines, and the kind of DSL technologies you use. It all works because telecommunications services split your phone lines in two so that one line takes care of your Internet and the other handles your phone needs.
(2) Broadband is one mode of transmission of Internet and phone signals. Broadband connection is important as a method of sending and receiving digital signals at high rates of speed, so that we receive our videos etc. much faster.
DSL emerged side by side with the advent of digital communications. It’s modern beginnings may go back to the late 1960’s, but it’s historical roots can be traced back to the invention of the phone in the 1800’s, and then in the beginnings of the digital age to the legendary work of one Claude Shannon (1916–2001), AKA (3) the father of information theory.
Shannon joined Bell Labs in 1941 and began a long history of first ideas and inventions, often in collaboration with his wife…
