Broadband

Broadband: Any connectivity technology that isn’t dial-up Internet

• connections that are always on
• long lasting connections that do not need to be established with each use

T-Carrier technologies: Technologies Invented to transmit multiple phone calls over a single link. Eventually, they also became common transmission systems to transfer data much faster than any dial-up connection could handle

• originally developed by AT&T in order to transmit multiple phone calls over a single link
• require dedicated lines which are more expensive