[IDSL & ASND] e., The bottom is below where I thought. But Ascend's top (up today 2+) was too scary. I sold today, to finance the purchase of more AMTX. Go ahead, say it; either I got some nerve or....
DSL employs the existing copper local loop to carry highbandwidth digital traffic.
Source: Computer Reseller News
Computer Reseller News via Individual Inc. : Alameda, Calif. -- Ascend Communications Inc. has a new family of products that offers digital subscriber line (DSL) functionality on existing ISDN equipment.
The MultiDSL family of products supports a variety of DSL "flavors," or implementations-including IDSL, a product jointly developed by Ascend and one of its customers, MFS Communications, based in Omaha, Neb. IDSL is a variety of DSL that is carried over ISDN equipment.
"The beauty of this solution is that VARs can roll out DSL service immediately using their existing ISDN hardware and then in the future they can plug in extra modules and offer DSL services for speeds as high as 6 Mbits per second," said Richard Sekar, product manager for high-speed access products at Ascend.
"Customers have invested millions in building an infrastructure, and the key message from us is that these products will let them protect that investment in infrastructure and upgrade seamlessly within that existing infrastructure," Sekar said.
DSL employs the existing copper local loop to carry high-bandwidth digital traffic between the end user and the central office. DSL services relieve congestion on the voice network by transmitting data over a data network that is separate from the voice network.
The DSL market now is in its infancy, but analysts predict it will expand in 1997 and 1998 and may soon supplant ISDN. The DSL market is driven by the escalating bandwidth demands of Internet and Web applications which are forcing carriers and service providers to find ways to expand capacity. DSL is emerging as a viable technology for packing more bandwidth into the existing infrastructure.
Ascend's products will include MultiDSL line cards for Ascend's MAX 4002, 4004 and MAX TNT families of multiprotocol WAN-access switches and the DSLPipe family of CPE products. Ascend's first MultiDSL product is an eight-port line card for the MAX 4002 and 4004 platform that supports IDSL, bringing the advantages of DSL and the low cost of 128-Kbps data service to ISDN customers.
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