10BROAD36 is an obsolete computer network standard in the Ethernet family.
[a] Broadband provides several advantages over the baseband signal used, for instance in 10BASE5.
10BROAD36 was less successful than its contemporaries because of the high equipment complexity (and cost) associated with it.
[3] In wide area networks it was quickly replaced by fiber-optic communication alternatives, such as 100BASE-FX (which provided ten times the data rate).
Interest in cable modems was revived for residential Internet access, through later technologies such as Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) introduced in the 1990s and is still widely used today.