... to Bob. In a similar manner, the Internet has anAPI that the program sending data must follow to have the Internet deliver the data to the program that will receive the data. The postal service, ... the downstream and upstream rates are different, the access issaid to be asymmetric. The actual downstream and upstream transmission ratesachieved may be less than the rates noted above, as the ... MIB 77 014 CHAPTER 1 • COMPUTER NETWORKS AND THE INTERNET Section 1.3.1). On the customer side, a splitter separates the data and telephone sig-nals arriving to the home and forwards the data...