

In the 1990s, the National Information Infrastructure initiative in the U.S.

The core of these broadband Internet technologies are complementary MOS (CMOS) digital circuits, the speed capabilities of which were extended with innovative design techniques. īroadband Internet access, often shortened to just broadband, is simply defined as "Internet access that is always on, and faster than the traditional dial-up access" and so covers a wide range of technologies. Continuous MOSFET scaling has since led to online bandwidth doubling every 18 months ( Edholm's law, which is related to Moore's law), with the bandwidths of telecommunications networks rising from bits per second to terabits per second. Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow in 1960, was adopted for MOS light wave systems around 1980, which led to exponential growth of Internet bandwidth. The laser, originally demonstrated by Charles H. The MOSFET, originally invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng in 1959, is the building block of the Internet telecommunications networks.
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The introduction of network access servers supporting the Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) and later the point-to-point protocol (PPP) extended the Internet protocols and made the full range of Internet services available to dial-up users although slower, due to the lower data rates available using dial-up.Īn important factor in the rapid rise of Internet access speed has been advances in MOSFET (MOS transistor) technology. These dial-up connections did not support end-to-end use of the Internet protocols and only provided terminal to host connections.

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Initially, dial-up connections were made from terminals or computers running terminal emulation software to terminal servers on LANs. LANs typically operated at 10 Mbit/s, while modem data-rates grew from 1200 bit/s in the early 1980s, to 56 kbit/s by the late 1990s. In the early to mid-1980s, most Internet access was from personal computers and workstations directly connected to local area networks (LANs) or from dial-up connections using modems and analog telephone lines. Use by a wider audience only came in 1995 when restrictions on the use of the Internet to carry commercial traffic were lifted. The Internet developed from the ARPANET, which was funded by the US government to support projects within the government and at universities and research laboratories in the US – but grew over time to include most of the world's large universities and the research arms of many technology companies.

Many organizations, including a growing number of municipal entities, also provide cost-free wireless access and landlines.Īvailability of Internet access was once limited, but has grown rapidly. Internet access is sold by Internet service providers (ISPs) delivering connectivity at a wide range of data transfer rates via various networking technologies. Internet access is the ability of individuals and organizations to connect to the Internet using computer terminals, computers, and other devices and to access services such as email and the World Wide Web.
