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Old 09-04-2019, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by The_bluester View Post
Actually I would argue with that definition of a modem. Once you go to light, you are not modulating anything any more. the Modulate Demodulate that the acronym stands for does not apply to optical services as it is meaning generating an analog waveform to represent a digital bitstream.
Granted, it wouldn’t apply to optical, but the number of domestic premises needing to use optical transceivers of some kind are far fewer that the advertising would infer...
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