The history of both the telephone and compute networking tells a story that started with all communications being wired. But the recent trend is moving toward more and more of this traffic becoming wireless. The history of television follows the opposite path.
Cable providers realized that the coaxial cables, generally used by cable television delivery into a person’s home were capable of transmitting much more data than what was required for TV viewing. By using frequencies that don’t interfere with television broadcast, cable-based internet access technologies were able to deliver high speed Internet access across these same cables.
One of the main differences in how cable internet access works when compared to other broadband solutions is that cable is generally what’s known as a shared band width technology.
technologies like DSL or even dial up they had to go through central office where the staffs had to manually change the wiring. Which was replaced by the automated hardware.
Technologies that connect directly to a CO can guarantee a certain amount of bandwidth available over that connection since it’s point to point.
Cable Broadband uses shared bandwidth model.
The device that sits at the edge of a consumer’s network and connects it to the cable modem termination system. or CMTS.