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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