Millions of Americans hold such portable jobs in the age of cable modems and Google .
The product can also be used in IP telephony devices and cable modems, the company said.
Personal computer users will reap the benefits of the high-speed connection only if they have DSL or cable modems.
The bell curve of human foibles will keep its shape even after 10-mbps cable modems take over our homes.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission figures that cable modems are available to 71% of U.S. homes, DSL, to at least 50%.
Cable modems that shuffle 3 million bits per second will be given away like plastic dog whistles in boxes of Froot Loops.
What is more, high-speed cable modems are a faster and cheaper alternative.
Unless SBC and other phone companies keep rolling out DSL, Floyd says, they will lose many of their best customers to cable modems.
Even high-speed cable modems and DSL lines typically run at only one-fifth the speed needed for a full-size TV picture in real time.
Then in the 2000s, the rise of DSL and cable modems made paying AOL a monthly fee for Internet access seem increasingly unnecessary.
To deliver packetized data over links not built for such services, cable used cable modems, and the telcos used DSL. Similar products, different technologies.
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Louis the oomph to cross the Atlantic, introduced the first cable modems nearly two decades ago but pulled them when they proved to be ahead of their time.
Telecommuting is a great deal when it works, and only became possible in my part of the state with the arrival of cable modems about eight years ago.
Market research firm Cahners In-Stat projects that by the close of the year 11.5 million broadband Internet connections (4.6 million DSL lines and 6.9 million cable modems) will be in service.
By the time home DSL and cable modems became more widely adopted, Cyber Monday already was an institution embraced by retailers and accompanied by discounts and promotions that consumers expected and even demanded.
He says those on-ramps have gotten better in the last decade, as cable and DSL modems have replaced slower dial-up connections.
For its part, Microsoft is betting that cable is the cheapest way to computerize 100 million homes, beating out telephone lines with modems.
Cable and DSL offer persistent Net connections, or always-on connections, removing squealing, temperamental modems from the picture completely.
Main.net's gear already serves 10, 000 European homes at speeds of 500 kilobits a second, roughly equal to average cable and digital subscriber line (DSL) speeds, but a tenfold increase over standard dial-up modems.
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