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Some DSL Broadband Definitions
Often too many people get confused with all the definitions, here we have explained in easy to understand terms. ADSL: ASAM: ATM: Contention Ratios: CPE: DSL: DSLAM: ERX: IPNet: Ping or Latency: RAN: RTT SDSL Units There is a major difference between UPPER and lowercase MB = MegaBytes MB/s = MegaBytes per second There is 8bits to a Byte, 8kb = 1kB 1Meg connections only transfer at 128kB/sec or an 8Mb connection only transfers at 1024kB/sec or 1MB/s Steve
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