Some company staff members will require after hour access to systems at office and the Internet for research projects. The company needs to purchase broadband facility for staff members' home offices. Your task is to perform a comparative assessment of ADSL2+ equipment versus cable modem equipment to determine which offers better capability. The intention of this exercise is to understand technical specification of two different types of routers and know their comparative advantages and limitations. Select one ADSL2+ modem/router and one cable modem/router available in the market and perform the following comparisons in a tabular format. Host Interface • What host-side interfaces are provided? (Hint: Ethernet, Firewire, USB2) • What bit rates do these technologies support? • How many ports are provided? • Do they have an embedded switching capability? • Is DHCP provided?
Some company staff members will require after hour access to systems at office and the Internet for research projects. The company needs to purchase broadband facility for staff members' home offices. Your task is to perform a comparative assessment of ADSL2+ equipment versus cable modem equipment to determine which offers better capability. The intention of this exercise is to understand technical specification of two different types of routers and know their comparative advantages and limitations. Select one ADSL2+ modem/router and one cable modem/router available in the market and perform the following comparisons in a tabular format.
Host Interface
• What host-side interfaces are provided? (Hint: Ethernet, Firewire, USB2)
• What bit rates do these technologies support?
• How many ports are provided?
• Do they have an embedded switching capability?
• Is DHCP provided?
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