Learning outcome:

Describe different types of broadband internet connection (wired

and wireless transmission media
CABLE INTERNET
SERVICE

DSL
Types of WIRED TRANSMISSION
MEDIA

broadband FTTP

internet
WIRELESS TRANSMISSION
connection MEDIA
FIXED WIRELESS

CELLULAR RADIO
SATTELITE NETWORK
INTERNET SERVICE

Wi-Fi
 WIRED TRANSMISSION MEDIA
Digital Subscriber Fibre to the Cable Internet Service
Line Premises (FTTP) / Cable Modem

• Provide high-speed
Internet connections • Provide high-speed
through the telephone Internet access • • Provide high-speed
network via a DSL through the fiber-optic Internet access
modem cable via a modem through the cable
• Fast, direct Internet • Also known as television network
access via standard Broadband over Fiber via a cable modem
telephone line (BoF) • Cable modem: Most
• Available in urban areas • Available in limited widely used home
• Half or less of cable areas broadband
speeds • Fast but expensive
• EXAMPLE: Streamyx connection
• Uses fiber-optic cable
without Wi-Fi
 WIRELESS TRANSMISSION MEDIA
Fixed Wireless Cellular Radio Satellite Internet Wi-Fi ( Wireless Wi-Fi Hotspot
Network Service Fidelity )
• Provides high- • Offers high-speed • Provides high-speed • Provides high-speed • Provides Internet
Internet Internet connection Internet connections connections to
speed Internet
connections to via satellite to a using radio signal with mobile computer or
connections using built-in-Wi-Fi
devices with built-in satellite dish that devices
a dish-shaped capability or a
compatible communicates with communication device • Provide a user with
antenna on a
technology or a satellite modem that enables Wi-Fi free or paid
building such as a computers with • Broadband option • EXAMPLE: Airport,
connectivity to
house or business wireless modems for rural areas: computer and devices café, Hotel, Hostel,
• Uses radio • Also known as → more expensive • Data is transmitted Offices
transmission Mobile wireless than cable or DSL through radio waves
• Access via mobile → available in many • Public wireless
towers rather
network
than satellites phone or device areas other broadband
→ both free and fee-
• Not available in all • EXAMPLE options are not based are available
PROVIDER: Maxis, • EXAMPLE: Streamyx
areas
DiGi and Umobile with Wi-Fi
• Expected to use
WiMAX
ADVANTAGES OF BROADBAND DISADVANTAGES OF BROADBAND

• Connection speed is • Not all phone

up to 100 times faster • You don’t need to • High monthly
than dialup dial an access wires are
number and risk fee compared equipped for DSL
connection. Online
gaming is only getting a busy signal to dialup service. May not
possible using a • Broadband internet internet access
offers unlimited be available in
broadband internet
access access and you won’t • Higher security rural or remote
• It does not affect the be charged based on risk than dial areas
phone line. For DSL the connection up connection. • Not all cable TV
internet access, you duration
• Broadband internet A personal networks are
can use the same
phone line for both not only gives you firewall is equipped for
voice/fax and data high speed internet needed to cable internet
transmission access, it can also access. May not
• It is convenient provide cheap phone protect your
be available in
because the internet services via VoIP computer
connection is always technology rural or remote
on areas