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To: Scrapps who wrote (808)	9/12/2000 10:28:11 AM
From: Perry P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2404

The Holy Grail?!?!?! Check out the BOLD highlight near the end. biz.yahoo.com DSL Forum Accelerates DSL Delivery Process CPE Autoconfiguration and Flow through Provisioning Enhances DSL Readiness for the Mass Market DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2000--Concurrence on a single industry-wide standard for DSL customer premises equipment (CPE) autoconfiguration and flow through service provisioning commanded the attention of nearly 400 DSL Forum member companies at the DSL Forum's quarterly meeting in Dublin. CPE autoconfiguration and flow through service provisioning will help simplify and automate end-to-end service delivery, accelerating the achievement of the global mass market for DSL. ``Representatives from both technical and marketing committees put forward many new initiatives to aid mass market success for DSL,'' said Hans-Erhard Reiter, chairman and president of DSL Forum. ``We have moved on from basic technical specification work for core DSL technologies into market needs activity to facilitate scaleable deployment and simplify installation for service providers and end users alike.'' DSL CPE Autoconfiguration and Flow through Provisioning The Forum's task force on CPE autoconfiguration agreed to advance a key working document under development in the Forum to straw ballot. It also received several new contributions on this important topic which are now under study. Representatives of the OpenDSL group stated their commitment to move forward within the DSL Forum to facilitate a unified CPE autoconfiguration solution that the entire industry will adopt. Their technical contribution proposed additional specifications for DSL Forum's ongoing work on CPE autoconfiguration, service provisioning and interoperability. To fast-track this work area, DSL Forum has scheduled special interim meetings prior to its next planned international gathering in early December. The key focus of this and other initiatives from DSL Forum is to accelerate service providers' ability to simplify the customer installation process by eliminating technician visits to the customer's site and other time-consuming manual actions currently required to deliver service. ``DSL Forum has reached a significant milestone towards automatic configuration by service providers of customer DSL equipment,'' said Gavin Young, technical chairman of DSL Forum. ``Next step will be a straw ballot on our specific proposals, final contributions from members and an agreed industry-wide protocol ready for implementation by early in 2001.'' In parallel, DSL Forum is focused on VoDSL, the next developments in DSL `flavors' and Internet security education to increase end user confidence in their ability to protect their data. According to Reiter, ``This is one of the most dynamic and exciting phases in DSL's short history. We are driving for high quality outcomes in a short timeframe and that can only be achieved with the sort of dedication and industry collaboration that the Forum has continuously achieved among its members since we were established in 1994.'' DSL technology today significantly increases speed for email, education, telecommuting, two-way video conferencing, business-to-business e-commerce, online shopping, gaming, entertainment and more. An increasing number of Web sites now feature content specifically designed to take advantage of broadband access. Already over one million DSL lines are in use in the US, another million lines will be in service by the end of 2000 in Korea alone and European deployment is on the brink of mass-market delivery. Hans-Erhard Reiter says, ``We identified the year 2000 as the year of DSL - and it is proving to be so, both within the industry and for the current nearly three million end users worldwide. In 2001, we will see an acceleration of global mass-market deployment to deliver the benefits of broadband using DSL. VoDSL is expected to follow rapidly as a valuable application with a whole raft of DSL varieties close behind, configured to meet the explosion of different market needs and opportunities.'' About DSL Forum Enabling consumers to enjoy the opportunities and lifestyle that high-speed access provides in today's constantly changing world is DSL Forum's mission. DSL Forum is a consortium of 380 leading computing, service provider, equipment and telecommunications companies working cooperatively to enable mass-market deployment of DSL technologies. Established in 1994, the Forum continues its drive for an open-market environment for DSL, to deliver the benefits of this technology to millions of end users around the world over existing copper telephone wire infrastructures. Retail availability, autoconfiguration, flow through provisioning, interoperability, Internet security, VoDSL and more will be agenda points for the next working meetings of DSL Forum which will take place in Portland, Oregon from December 6-8, 2000. Details about this and DSL are available on DSL Forum's Web sites at dslforum.org - with information for users at dsllife.com ``DSL-- More than just a phone line... it's a lifestyle.'' It sure seems like G.Lite would solve all these problems right now. Perry P.