Design and Implementation of DSL-Based Access Solutions
by Sanjeev CCIE #4006 Mervana, Chris CCIE #5235 Le
ADSL Benefits
In May 2001, 2,914,003 ADSL lines were recorded in service (Telechoice DSL Deployment Summary, www.xdsl.com/content/resources/deployment_info.asp). This tremendous growth in DSL technology was the result of major telcos pushing this technology. So far, DSL has been the most promising technology that enables telcos to get incremental revenues by offering voice, video, and data over the same copper wire. Telephone companies embraced the technology because of the following benefits:
High-speed access— For an affordable price of around $40 a month, customers now can get speeds of up to 1 Mbps, which is necessary to download web pages that are loaded with graphics. Sharing pictures on the web is now more practical and downloading large ...
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