Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[Scott Helms <khelms () zcorum com>]

AFC, the only shelf I worked on that would silently allow you to allocate
so much bandwidth to the ADSL cards that voice wouldn't work....


Scott Helms
Vice President of Technology
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Jack Bates <jbates () paradoxnetworks net>
wrote:

> On 2/27/2015 11:27 AM, Scott Helms wrote:
>
> > Jack,
> >
> > I don't know what manufacturer you might be thinking of, but from a
> > standards point of view ADSL2 and ADSL2+ both have faster upstream speeds
> > than ADSL (G.dmt or T1.413)
> Oh, standards wise, that is true. However, the gear they had (AFC)
> supported 8/1.5 for ADSL and I think 24/1 for ADSL2+. My point wasn't about
> standards, but an actual event. There is a perception that faster download
> is an upgrade, even if your upload is reduced. For the most part, they were
> right. Only a small percentage of the customers were upset at the upload
> decrease.
>
> The kicker was, the max downlink speed they allowed was 10. If they could
> have supported the right annex, they could have had more upload. Vendor
> limitations and such. :(
>
>
> Jack