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Telenet was an American commercial packet-switched network which went into service in 1975. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the first FCC-licensed public data network in the United States. [ 3 ] Various commercial and government interests paid monthly fees for dedicated lines connecting their computers and local networks to this backbone network .
Telenet was purchased in 2000 by Dick Callahan's telecommunications holding company, Callahan Associates International, [2] in a deal valued at $969 million at the time. [3] Since 11 October 2005, Telenet was listed on the Euronext Brussels stock exchange under the ticker TNET, until it was acquired by Liberty Global on October 16 2023. [4]
A given headend may have between 1–12 CMTSs to service the cable modem population served by that headend or HFC hub. One way to think of a CMTS is to imagine a router with Ethernet interfaces (connections) on one side and coaxial cable RF interfaces on the other side. The Ethernet side is known as the Network Side Interface or NSI. [3] [4]
A modem flap is when the connection by the modem to the head-end has been dropped (gone offline) and then comes back online. The time offline or rate of flap is not typically recorded, only the incidence. While this is a common occurrence and usually unnoticed, if a modem's flap is extremely high, these disconnects can cause service to be ...
The modem also provides handshake protocols, so that the devices on each end of the connection are able to recognize each other. [6] However, a modem generally provides few other network functions. A USB modem plugs into a single PC and allows a connection of that single PC to a WAN. If properly configured, the PC can also function as the ...
In 2014 the Ziggo hybrid fiber-coaxial cable network (a broadband network that combines optical fiber and coaxial cable) passed 7.140 million homes in the Netherlands. [20] In 2020 it consisted of 40,350 km (25,072 mi) of fiber-optic cables that transported 97% of the total data volume in the network.
A "short haul modem" is a device that bridges the gap between leased-line and dial-up modems. Like a leased-line modem, they transmit over "bare" lines with no power or telco switching equipment, but are not intended for the same distances that leased lines can achieve.
SupraFAXModem 144 LC modem (1996) Sticker on bottom of SupraFAXModem 144 LC modem The SupraFAXModem 14400 is a v.32bis modem . When it was launched by Supra, Inc. in January 1992 for US$399 (equivalent to $870 in 2023), [ N 1 ] the 14,400 bit/s model was less expensive than most existing 9600 bit/s models.