Re: FW: (PM) DSL for PMs

Kevin A. Smith (kevin@ascend.com)
Wed, 13 May 1998 18:19:35 -0700

At 04:07 PM 5/13/98 -0400, Matt Magri wrote:
>
>I would hope that there will be a xDSL card for the PM4, at least.
>Basically something to plug in a number of xDSL connections. The
>tricky part is what sits on the customer side of the connection, tho
>(since, obviously, they have to interoperate). Ascend has an IDSL
>solution that's limited to 128k bandwidth and only requires an ISDN
>TA at the customer end.

That is just to the MAX, the TNT hosts (or will host) a full range
of xDSL flavors. I would expect the PM4 to do so too eventually, as
I believe the new Cisco AS5800 does....

> I would rather see a better range of
>bandwidth numbers (so that you could handle bigger connections, step
>customers up as desired, etc.), but it's chief virtue is that it's an
>xDSL solution that doesn't involve a lot of esoteric equipment. At the
>ISP end there's an 8-port card that will go into a 4004, etc. It looks
>like a good way to get your feet wet if you already have the box.
>
>Anyway, a bigger-pipe solution would require something more specialized
>at the other end. I don't know how Lucent RABU would want to address
>that, but I hope we'll hear something soon. Of course, if xDSL equipment
>was interchangable between vendors it wouldn't be such a big deal. I
>don't know how soon -that's- going to change, tho...

The CPE end should be....

Kevin Smith Ascend Communications...
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