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To: Scrapps who wrote (18824)	5/21/1999 3:56:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Bandwidth Wars: DSL Products Vie For Place In SuperComm Demo Computer Reseller News - 05/21/99; 12:00 a.m. ET In an effort to participate in a much-anticipated June demonstration, products that support an emerging high-speed Internet-access standard are undergoing rigorous testing this week. The Universal ADSL Working Group (UAWG), a consortium that includes members such as Intel, Microsoft, and Compaq, will hold an interoperability demo at Supercomm '99 in Atlanta on June 8. Vendors that make products to support G.lite, the standard for splitterless ADSL, will showcase those products at the conference. The tests, dubbed "Plugfest," will wrap up this week. Plugfest is important because it shows which vendors have products that work, said Shannon Pleasant, senior analyst at Cahners In-Stat Group, a Newton, Mass., consulting firm. "There is much excitement about this because you have to put your money where your mouth is,"she said. "You have to provide product and prove standards-based silicon really is standards-based." Carriers are positioning ADSL mostly as a consumer service, while SDSL is more focused on business customers that require about 1.5-megabit-per-second services, said Pleasant. In the North American market, SDSL subscribers in 1998 numbered about 76,000 compared with 63,000 ADSL subscribers, Pleasant said. SDSL is targeted at telecommuters and costs about one-fourth the price of a T1 line, or anywhere from $700 to $2,700 depending on the carrier. ADSL prices can start as low as $40 or $50 per month for, tops, 512 kilobits per second upstream and 1.5 Mbps downstream. G.Lite is a version of ADSL that lets customers install the technology in their homes without needing the help of the phone company technicians. By avoiding the "truck roll," carriers are able to keep service costs down. SDSL and ADSL have the same distance limitations in that customers can be no more than three miles from a central office to get decent performance. Until now, lack of interoperability has been a main reason carriers have delayed their ADSL rollouts, Pleasant said. Hardware companies that pass interoperability tests will show off chips, access modules, routers, and modems. For example, if 3Com passes the test, it will demonstrate its OfficeConnect 810 routers and HomeConnect modem family, said a spokesman for the Santa Clara, Calif., company. And Nortel Networks said it expects to demonstrate its Universal Edge 9000 central office DSLAM service working with other customer premise equipment. Cisco, in San Jose, Calif., wants to show G.Lite working in its Cisco 6100 series central-office DSLAM and the Cisco 677 CPE router. An unsuccessful Plugfest will mean slow Christmas sales of G.Lite customer products, said Mark Dwight, product-line manager at Cisco. Vendors need June and July to get products ready to sell by November and December, he said. Following the SuperComm interoperability demo, the UAWG will relinquish management of the G.lite specification. The standard will become the responsibility of the ADSL Working Group. o~~~ O