Derek: This is the same group "Forrester Research", that came in over a year ago and gave my old group a talk on remote access. They were very high on Cable modems, and knew very little on the xDSL front. Lets take a closer look at some of the reasons for being negative on DSL.
1) Instead of DSL, telecommuters will adapt STANDARD-BASED 56K-bps modems and possiblity bond two or more of these lines together for even higher throughtput...
Standard-based 56K... we both know that standard based 56k is a 1998 thing. Maybe Forrester should be told that DMT has been the standard for some time for ADSL. In one paragraph they indicate that the demand on the business side will not be there, but talk about bonding 56K lines to get higher speeds? Confusing at best.
2) "The demand will not be there on the business side, the telcos can't get it together, there's no standard yet and, even though Bell Atlantic announced plans to roll out service, I sense it's not a firm commitment,"
Bell Atlantic said that their deployments would be for the consumer side, not the business side.
3) Even though he needs the bandwidth, user Jeff Hartweg is not buying into ADSL just yet.... "Companies say, 'Yeah, we're going to jump on things--but it's nonstandard, and it's a risk to the whole network architecture,'" said Hartweg, global network architect for GE Capital Auto Financial Services Inc., in Barrington, Ill.
Wait one minute... you just said that the demand isn't there for ADSL speeds. Isn't that your job to plan your global network architecture for GE Capital Auto Financial Services. Hartweg should try an understand what can be done with RADSL... like setting the xDSL solution to a minimum rate. Does Hartweg understand that ISDN is a slow form of DSL? You can tune your ISDN router to use 56K "1-B channetl". 56K analog is a SHORT term solution... |
