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Module 12 - Enterprise/SOHO Communications Needs and Solutions                                           Slide 18 of 30                                                                                                    ________________

                                 Communications Technologies Scalability

Communications Technologies Capabilities
Twisted Pair Telephone Lines 4.0 K Hz
64 K bps
Typical Coax Cable TV System 350 M Hz
ISDN - B Channel 64 K bps
ISDN Basic - D Channel 16 K bps
ISDN Primary 1.544 M bps
ISDN Primary D Channel 64 K bps
ADSL 1.544 - 6.0 M bps
Cable Modem 750 K bps
Ethernet 10 M bps, 100 M bps, 1,000 M bps
Token Ring 4 or 16 M bps
Frame Relay 45 M bps
ATM G bps range
SONET G bps range
WDM 20 G bps
DWDM 16 + waves through one fiber
(160 + G bps)

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Wire-line communications systems are scalable from 64 K bps to G bps range. Wire-line systems are capable of supporting much higher bandwidths than wireless systems.

Wireless Communications Systems Scalability:

Communications Technologies Capabilities
1-G Systems  
2-G systems 20 K bps range
3-G systems 40 Kbps
MMDS 10 M bps
LMDS 50 M bps
Microwave 155 M bps
Satellite 155 M bps
Wireless LANs  
                   802.11a 54 M bps
                   802.11b 11 M bps
                   802.11g 20 M bps