By Dave Wachob – Another possible alternative is via telco twisted pair, given it already serves most if not all the rural areas. Advances in DSL over the last 20+ years have enabled respectable data rates from 25 Mbps to 100 Mbps.
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By H. Mark Bowers — Broadband noise generators offer a viable alternative to the tracking generator approach. A fairly flat RF output response noise generator can be purchased for several hundred dollars and can be paired with most spectrum analyzers.
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By Dr. Rouzbeh Yassini, Ph.D. – The gift that is broadband just keeps on giving. Nearly 20 years after publication of the original DOCSIS® specification, broadband is demonstrating an astonishing capacity for transforming the way people (and increasingly their machines) communicate, learn, conduct commerce and advance the human condition.
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