The document discusses various technologies used for data transmission over telephone and cable networks, including:
1. Telephone networks originally used analog circuit switching to transmit voice calls but have transitioned to separate digital data transfer and signaling networks.
2. Traditional telephone lines support dial-up modems using modulation/demodulation to transmit data within the 3000Hz bandwidth for voice calls.
3. Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technologies like ADSL provide higher bandwidth internet over existing telephone lines by using frequencies up to 1.1MHz.
4. Cable networks originally provided unidirectional video but now support bidirectional high-speed internet using technologies like DOCSIS to share bandwidth over coaxial and fiber-opt