Re: Adtran's MDSL
DenverTechie,
You would think that if Adtran had a product as revolutionary as their MDSL claims to be, that it would be on their website. I don't know if you caught this, but at the bottom of the article it says, "Adtran said Total Reach is available now; no pricing information was available." Yet I cannot seem to find it? Even doing a search on "Total Reach," turned up nothing that is tagged, "MDSL."
I know Adtran is promoting HDSL2 which I'm totally confused about. Why would they be putting so much effort into HDSL2 when it only offers 1.544Mbps at a maximum of 12,000 feet? I thought all the other newer DSL flavors were offering equal to, or more bandwidth?
Is it such a breakthrough that going from two-pair to one-pair would make this HDSL2 such a hot product for the carriers? Or is this a hot breakthrough because one-pair HDSL service means it can be deployed to houses as opposed to businesses? As you can tell, I'm confused about their market for HDSL2.
I'm wondering if the Total Reach MDSL product is a fancy name for one of their current HDSL offerings? But they forgot to change the name in their website.
Thanks,
MikeM(From Florida)
PS As I do my Due Diligence on ADTN, the stock price has gone from high teens to 31.
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From their website:
"Whether it be wide area networking or a simple voice call, T1 lines are the backbone of the communications network. Since the 1960s, 4-wire T1 circuits (regular copper T1s, and more recently HDSL) have been the norm for T1 circuit deployment. However, with more and more demand for higher bandwidth services, the availability of copper pairs is rapidly being exhausted.
In an effort to provide for the savings of copper pairs in the network, ANSI's T1E1.4 subcommittee is developing a new standard to provide transport of T1 services over a single pair of copper. This new standard is HDSL2.
The objective of HDSL2 is to deploy a 2-wire digital T1 transport technology on the same copper facilities used for deploying 4-wire HDSL. In addition to the deployment issues, interoperability among equipment vendors is also a stated objective of HDSL2.
The goal of HDSL2 is to transport T1 traffic on a single-pair of copper using CSA design guidelines." |
