Asymmetrical Digital
Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a method of sending data
at high-speed over existing copper twisted-pair telephone
wires typical of the 'local loop' connecting business
and domestic users to a telephone exchange.
Description:Asymmetrical
Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a line-encoding
scheme. Line encoding schemes describe how data or
information is encoded as a signal and how it is transmitted
across a network. A 'line code' is the term used to
describe the electrical representation of a digital
signal. ADSL line encoding is capable of providing:
a high-speed, uni-directional data channel at up to
8 Mb/s (enough for compressed full-motion, full-colour
movies) a bi-directional duplex data channel with
transmission speeds up to 5.76 Mb/s, which can be
subdivided in many ways to provide several simultaneous
services support for existing analogue Telephone Services
including: voice, Group 3 Fax, etc.