Cable Modems: Current Technologies and Applications

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-53-6
Price: $63.95

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FEATURES

• Discussions of cable data-network system architectures
• Comparison of industry standards: ITU, IEEE 802, and MCNS
• Physical (PHY) layer modulation technology
• Advanced PHY layer proposal
• Media-access control (MAC) layer and performance issues
• Cable-network upstream signaling
• One-way cable versus two-way cable
• Security
• Legal issues
• Complete coverage of the current status of cable-modem technologies and applications
• Challenges and opportunities for deploying cable modems both in the United States and abroad