Chapter 2. Technical Foundations of Residential Broadband

This chapter covers the following topics:

• DAVIC Reference Architecture

• Modulation Techniques

• Noise Mitigation Techniquesd

• Metallic Transmission

• Fiber Optic Transmission

• Wireless Transmission

• Network Performance

• Signaling

• IP Multicast

• The Limits of Audio/Visual Perception

• MPEG-2 Compression and Systems

• MPEG-4 Scene Description