Data on Fixed Line vs. Cellular Debate
Stefan Briney
NT1310 – Friday
1/9/2015
Unit 1 Lab 1 – Data on Fixed Line vs. Cellular Debate
The debate between cell phones and landline has been raging since the early 2000’s. There are major pros and cons to both sides and relying solely on one or the other would be bad. The need for both a physical connection and a wireless connection will always be prevalent. Although we as a people could not imagine life without our cell phones or laptops, fixed line networks were the standard up until cellular phones were introduced.
Since the early 2000’s, wireless coverage has expanded ten-fold across the country. Cell phones wireless capacity is both a good thing and a bad thing. Wireless gives you the ability to travel and maintain a connection. This connection however depends on your surrounding environment. There are many things that affect radio waves and if something is disrupting the signal from your cell phone to the radio tower, a connection will be hard to get. Staying within large metropolitan areas guarantees a good signal due to the overlapping of radio towers. The battery on a cellphone can be considered both a pro and a con as well. Batteries are a form of contained electricity which allows you to provide an electrical charge to the components within your cell phone. Batteries are not permanent though and are susceptible to fatigue and loss of charge. New advancements in battery technology have been making leap forwards in providing longer lasting and smaller batteries.
Fixed lines have just as many pros and cons as cellular phones. To receive or transmit data over the fixed line a modem is needed on each end of the line. The modem takes the digital information and turns it into tones that have been specifically selected for the transmission over telephone network. The modem at the other end is responsible for turning the tones back into digital data. Data rates were limited until digital subscriber line (DSL) was introduced. DSL used the existing
NT1310 – Friday
1/9/2015
Unit 1 Lab 1 – Data on Fixed Line vs. Cellular Debate
The debate between cell phones and landline has been raging since the early 2000’s. There are major pros and cons to both sides and relying solely on one or the other would be bad. The need for both a physical connection and a wireless connection will always be prevalent. Although we as a people could not imagine life without our cell phones or laptops, fixed line networks were the standard up until cellular phones were introduced.
Since the early 2000’s, wireless coverage has expanded ten-fold across the country. Cell phones wireless capacity is both a good thing and a bad thing. Wireless gives you the ability to travel and maintain a connection. This connection however depends on your surrounding environment. There are many things that affect radio waves and if something is disrupting the signal from your cell phone to the radio tower, a connection will be hard to get. Staying within large metropolitan areas guarantees a good signal due to the overlapping of radio towers. The battery on a cellphone can be considered both a pro and a con as well. Batteries are a form of contained electricity which allows you to provide an electrical charge to the components within your cell phone. Batteries are not permanent though and are susceptible to fatigue and loss of charge. New advancements in battery technology have been making leap forwards in providing longer lasting and smaller batteries.
Fixed lines have just as many pros and cons as cellular phones. To receive or transmit data over the fixed line a modem is needed on each end of the line. The modem takes the digital information and turns it into tones that have been specifically selected for the transmission over telephone network. The modem at the other end is responsible for turning the tones back into digital data. Data rates were limited until digital subscriber line (DSL) was introduced. DSL used the existing