A T1 line can generally be described as a internet access technological system that carries transmission data in very high speed. It is rather a very high speed telephone line of a digital nature which can transfer telecommunication signals even at a speed of 1.544Mbps. It can also be able to accommodate an average of 24 trunks or telephone lines within it. Conceptually, the historical overview of T1 technology has taken various models spanning with its establishment sometime during the early 1960s by AT & T Laboratories made for Japan and North America. It is basically a fiber optic or even copper telephone lines which are able to carry more data and at a higher speed as compared to the traditionally known telephone lines.
Traditionally, twisted copper technology was the standard method that has been in use for many decades in transmitting data and voice analog signals. However, such technology is slowly been phased out by the growth and establishment in fiber optic cables that are been made of glass. T1 lines have conceptually been used in creating cable pipes that are able of blowing large datastreams through them. Currently, T1 technology is used for the highly growing business data and voice development concern transmitting with it a broad layout of such analog data bundles (Sipher, 13). It is currently been used for extensively growing commercial business environment for its good characteristic of faster data transmission across networks. It is currently providing data transmission services for around 60 times faster as compared to the traditionally known modems.
With T1 technology, the commercial world has thus used the same technology in saving large sums of money when such businesses use larger combinations of data and voice transmission lines in delivering large and fast bundles of their data requirements. Telecommunication charges have thus been reduced across the business world as well as providing high levels of internet accessibility within the same time. This is achieved when organizations acquire T1 lines upon which they can loop them towards their business premises (Sipher, 15). Charges are evaluated in terms of the number of T1 line not the number of the telephone lines that are basically supported by such telephone lines under use within a certain premise.
Chronologically, T1 technology was expensive upon its establishment but it is gradually reducing following the growing demand for the same. With its high speed domain that the traditional telephone lines, T1 technology has become an important source of data and voice communication (Signal, 1). The growing reliability of the same has also rendered the growth in this technology be highly supported. It has been generally more reliable that analog modems. The change in the use of T1 technology has a sharp growth interest with many people been able to handle the same at the same time. Additionally, browsing has also been made easier with many hundred browsers sharing the same T1 line with ease and comfortability.
The cost in T1 lines has also been diversely changing with its current cost ranging from $1000 to around $1500 each month. However, this is dependent on the service provider. The main aim behind the growth in T1 lines was to provide more economical and faster multiplexing systems of data and voice carrier across cities. With the establishment and use of pulse-code modulation, there was the growing possibility of sharing of decoders and coders amongst several trucks of analog voice. Though the initial establishment of the technology was rather expensive, growth in digital technology helped in easing such costs to a bit affordable rates. Currently, T1 technology is used to imply a data circuit with which data can run through it at a speed of 1.544 Mbps. The original codification of the T1 technology enabled the carriage of 24 modulations of pulse-codes signals which were each encoded in streams of 64kbps. This left 8kbps level of framing information that facilitated demultiplexing and synchronization at the receiver end. With the logical growth and expansion in the T1 technology, the world is perhaps looking forward in embracing a large framework of technological reservation in terms of it voice and data analog communication.
TI technology came about as a solution to the inadequacies of the traditional telephone lines that were used for communication and transmission of data bandwidths across business and government communities (Signal, 1). Traditional telephone lines transferred analog data services via end rumination of modems. Currently, T1 technology can help to transmit digital signals rather than transmitting analog. The same signals are delivered through fiber optic lines. T1 Technology is generally focused to advance in high levels given the currently highly changing state of communication technology.
In conclusion, the future of this technology looks very bright as it has come to ease the way information is being passed from one location to the other. What makes this technology very applicable is its flexibility as compared to other technological systems.
Works Cited
Signal, M. Comparison of T1 Technology to DSL. 2010. Viewed August 23, 2010 from http://www.ehow.com/facts_6769921_comparison-t1-technology-dsl.html
Sipher, K. Timesharing T1 internet access Through Wireless Technology. The Journal (Technology Horizons in Education). Vol. 25, p. 12-16
