> ADSL/IDSL technology requires hardware at the CO itself.
> >From that point, it's a matter of getting digital data from the CO to your
> site. I would expect to pay a lot for the telco to recover the huge cost
> of the CO hardware. Esp since ADSL has a limited range.
>
Completely untrue. You order a circuit, just like you do now forT1's, that
goes
from the customer to your POP. You install Pairgain (our favorite) on each
end,
and bam. done. Of course, if you colocated equipment AT a CO, you'd be in a
little better position to reach more places, but you don't NEED to.
> For us, the telco here links ADSL clients at the CO into their fibre
> optic data backbone, and if we want to be part of ADSL, we'd have to buy a
I'll bet that's not true either... you'd have to read tarriffs in your area.
> link to that backbone (about $5k/month). And basically take the cable and
> plug in straight into our core router, thus out to the internet.
> Check out www.adsl.com for more info.
> Cheers.
>
> On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Jake Messinger wrote:
>
> > Does the pm 3 or any livingston equipmetn support dsl, idsl or adsl? It
> > sounds like a cheap alternative to bri or pri. You can get around the
> > tarrifs by ordering a dry pair it would seem.
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