Re: [TCLUG:20045] DSL

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Adam Maloney wrote:
> IDSL is just ISDN, provisioned just like ISDN but it doesn't use the
> 16kb D channel for signalling, so your throughput rate is increased from
> 128k to 144k.  That's why the pricing is almost identical to ISDN.  But
> yes, it should run over fiber and the 18kft distance limit is
> non-existant.  US-West was supposedly working on another solution to
> get "real" DSL to fiber-fed homes but I haven't heard any news on that.
> To me their roll-out of iDSL is like waving the white flag above their
> little foxhole...they give up.  

IDSL also loses support for analog lines 'n stuff. Fun!

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