Home Network Basis: Transmission Environments and Wired/Wireless Protocols

Preface

Broadband digital communication used to be limited only to backbone network infrastructure and to private transmission facilities of large corporations. Digital broadband access to average households had been promoted for video-on-demand applications and succeeded, most recently, only as a fast Internet extension. At this writing, there are at least 15 million homes with PCs connected to the Internet through broadband access networks in forms of either ADSL or cable modem. Networking PCs through a home router, with a home network at one side and the broadband access modem at the other side, is a good way to share the Internet access among multiple PCs and their users. Many network service providers, such as AT&T Media One, have endorsed ...