Characteristics of Broadband Technologies
Speed or capacity - That means the capacity of the network link between the user and the broadband service provider. It is the one of the crucial factor of broadband every one considered. There are many kinds of broadband technologies either wired or wireless. This characteristic is in every broadband technology. When user wants to download high capacity files, streaming, or video calls, and the user should have a better capacity of down link.
Latency and jitter – This characteristic is very much crucial in applications that depends on real time information or interaction, such as telephone calls (VOIP) and interactive game playing. In simple words, Latency is an expression of how much time it takes for a packet of data to get from one designated point to another. And jitter is the variation in the time between packets arriving. This characteristic is very much important when we are in VOIP calls and playing online games.
Bandwidth symmetry – today telecommunication services, especially broadband do not necessary provide the same capacity up and down stream. This characteristic depends on the requirement of a broadband connection. When a user interest on web browsing; low bandwidth can be sufficient for upstream. That means up link can use for only send the request to serves. To do a request user need very few bandwidths and the higher down stream connection returns the contents. When we transfer peer to peer bulky files we have to request higher downstream and upstream.
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