"First Mile"
For providing Internet access service directly from providers to homes and small businesses:
| Name | Standard | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 10BaseS | Proprietary | Ethernet over VDSL, used in Long Reach Ethernet products |
| 2BASE-TL | IEEE 802.3ah-2004 | Over telephone wires |
| 10PASS-TS | ||
| 100BASE-LX10 100BASE-BX10 1000BASE-LX10 1000BASE-BX10 |
Single-mode fiber-optics | |
| 1000BASE-PX10 1000BASE-PX20 |
Passive optical network |
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Famous quotes containing the word mile:
“Telephone poles were matchsticks, put there to be snapped off at a whim. Dogs trotting across the road were suddenly big trucks. Old ladies turned into moving—vans. Everything was too bright, but very funny and made for my delight. And about half a mile from my long liquid breakfast I turned carefully down a side street and parked, and sat beaming happily through the tannic fog for about an hour, remembering how witty we all had been, how handsome and talented ... [ellipsis in original]”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
“For half a mile from the shore it was one mass of white breakers, which, with the wind, made such a din that we could hardly hear ourselves speak.... This was the stormiest sea that we witnessed,—more tumultuous, my companion affirmed, than the rapids of Niagara, and, of course, on a far greater scale. It was the ocean in a gale, a clear, cold day, with only one sail in sight, which labored much, as if it were anxiously seeking a harbor.... It was the roaring sea, thalassa exeessa.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)