IP: SUPER-FAST DSL COULD TAKE BROADBAND MARKET BY STORM: Edupage, April 25, 2001

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>European businesses will soon have the opportunity to access the
>Internet at up to a blistering 4.6 megabits per second thanks to
>the rollout of Symmetrical High-Density Digital Subscriber Line
>(SHDSL) service by Efficient Networks. SHDSL offers consumers
>faster upload times than Asynchronous DSL, which has fast
>downloads but slow uploads. Using repeaters, SHDSL can transmit
>signals up to 19 miles from the telecommunications provider's
>switches. Efficient Networks will offer its $499 5950 SHDSL
>Business Gateway to small and mid-sized European businesses this
>summer. The technology is compatible with prevailing network
>standards, as well as conforming to the International
>Telecommunications Union G.991.2 Recommendations, and the data
>encoding and signal modulation HDSL-2 standard. Efficient
>Networks believes Europe's slow adoption of SDSL creates an
>opportunity for its SHDSL product that will not exist in North
>America until about the second quarter of 2002.
>(PCWorld.com, 23 April 2001)



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