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"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
- John Lennon
Today's Know-IT-All answer is:
a. DSLAM
Learn more:
A Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) is a network device, usually at a telephone company central office, that receives signals from multiple customer Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connections and puts the signals on a high-speed backbone line using multiplexing techniques. Depending on the product, DSLAM multiplexers connect DSL lines with some combination of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), frame relay, or Internet Protocol networks. DSLAM enables a phone company to offer business or homes users the fastest phone line technology (DSL) with the fastest backbone network technology (ATM).If this quiz has left you yearning for a little more information, please check the links below for related articles and tips:
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