> [...], while me, having grown up (at least chronologically!) in the > 1970s, "broadband" is a more relaxed way of saying "multiple > information channels via frequency-division multiplexing on multiple > independent carriers".
And, doesn't DSL fit that? At the physical layer, at least - the multiple physical-layer channels get combined into one bit pipe, but if that's relevant, then all these mass-market last-mile technologies are the same, because they all end up providing a simple bit pipe at the customer interface. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user