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To: WTC who wrote (2320)	11/12/1998 5:12:00 PM
From: DenverTechie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

As stated to lml, the choices are limited. All the systems are proprietary. Diamond Lane has a shipping product but last time I looked it only works in the NEC DLC (could be others by now). Not very well integrated, but they do extend the distance from the serving CO. Simple functionality. Several, like Westell are CAP based. So your supposition about proprietary systems installed in existing enclosures or systems and back hauled to the DSLAM at the CO is correct. They are basically just remote line cards in a shelf of a DLC connected by fiber to the CO where the DSLAM resides. Not very elegant, not very cost effective perhaps, but the best available currently. And if your telco doesn't have the DLC - ADSL combination that works together on its approved vendor list, you are out of luck. Has to be a new DLC too, can't retrofit the old ones. US West has trialed Diamond Lane's remote system, the DAGAZ system (that I think was bought by someone), and PairGain. Don't know which have been chosen for commercial deployment, but the Diamond Lane has the best chance for possible new DLC applications. It would not be any more elegant or economical than the systems available now that we have described.