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Femtocells gather steam after interoperability pact
News Agreeing principles for interoperability between femtocell access points and femto gateways is crucial for the longer term success of the technology, according to the Forum, which said it is collaborating with mobile operator body the GSM...
[May 22, 2008, 8:52]
DSL growth hits record high
News The number of digital subscriber line (DSL) customers worldwide grew at an unprecedented rate from July through September, providing signs of life for the broadband market, according to a survey from the DSL Forum.
[December 11, 2002, 10:42]
UK still languishing down DSL league
News Figures released at the Broadband World Forum on Tuesday by the DSL Forum showed that the UK isn't in the top 20 countries when it comes to the percentage of phone lines that have been converted to DSL.
[September 10, 2003, 13:10]
Oftel wades into DSL row
News A major storm has been brewing in the Spectrum Management Forum -- set up by Oftel to discuss issues around DSL and unbundling of the local loop -- between BT and rival telecoms operators. The watchdog claims its proposals on the roll out of...
[June 13, 2000, 16:24]
3G is dead, says mobile phone inventor
News We engineers knew years ago that 3G as presently constituted is essentially dead," said Cooper, speaking at the Broadband DSL Forum conference in Berlin. Surprisingly, for a panel session at the Broadband DSL Forum on the future of broadband, there...
[October 31, 2002, 14:53]
Asia leads the way in broadband growth
News Worldwide growth of 36 per cent during the past six months has added 6.8 million subscribers to the global total, according to figures collated by Point Topic, a DSL industry analyst firm, and released at the DSL Forum Summit in London on Wednesday.
[August 28, 2002, 9:31]
BT holding back DSL say rivals
News According to one source close to the Spectrum Management Forum -- set up by Oftel to discuss issues surrounding unbundling and DSL -- BT is deliberately blocking one type of DSL. Broadband services -- offering high speed Internet access -- will be...
[April 19, 2000, 7:05]
Support grows for rural DSL alternative
News The high costs of such construction have kept DSL and cable providers out of many rural areas, according to industry trade group DSL Forum. However, WiMAX's initial push is among high-speed networking companies that want to expand into areas such...
[April 9, 2003, 9:17]
G.SHDSL: Faster DSL means faster downloads
News DSL Forum's Peden expects to see some commercial availability as early as next quarter in Europe and early next year in the United States. They've just finished some of the trial phases," said Mark Peden, a member of the board of directors for the...
[September 21, 2001, 15:08]
US Report: Cable modems outpace ADSL
News A complex 16MB Image would take 4.5 minutes using dial up, 2.4 minutes on ISDN and just 10.7 seconds with DSL. A 72MB video would take 25 minutes to download using a dial-up connection, 10 minutes down an ISDN line and 48 seconds with DSL.
[August 3, 1998, 9:22]
DSL broadband beating cable
News The number of DSL subscriptions worldwide has grown 39 percent over the past year to pass the 150 million mark, according to the latest figures from the DSL Forum. DSL appears to be winning out over cable as the most popular broadband connection...
[June 26, 2006, 16:55]
What's the Word on WiMAX?
White Papers WiMAX has many potential applications; among them is simply providing a wireless broadband alternative to DSL, cable modem and T-1 services. The good news is that there are finally standards for the broadband wireless access (BWA) market and an...
[November 11, 2005, 0:00]
Breaking out of walled gardens: The promise of ethernet interconnection
White Papers We quickly developed it into our standard Ethernet service, COLT LANL ink, and followed that with Ethernet over DSL , hub-and-spoke and any-to-any connectivity. Our services are Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) certified, and for two years running we...
[August 24, 2007, 1:00]
WiMAX: Demystifying 802.16d and 801.16e
White Papers SOMA Networks delivers highly scalable and reliable standards-based Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) products with DSL-like performance and PSTN-like voice quality today. As a principal member of the WiMAX Forum, SOMA Networks believes that the IEEE...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
All-in-one firewall/DSL modem planned
News Swiss networking company Lightning is planning to launch a product that combines a stateful inspection firewall, router and a DSL modem. The move fits in with the spread of "wires-only" DSL provision, in which the user must buy his or her own modem.
[March 20, 2002, 17:21]
Broadcom acquires UK DSL firm
News Element 14's technology allows for lower power consumption for DSL services. Broadcom said that with the new technology, it will be able to offer DSL vendors a significant increase in the number of DSL-enabled copper twisted-pairs that can be...
[October 4, 2000, 15:06]
Superfast DSL shows its pace
News VDSL-DMT is compatible with existing ADSL, and can support existing DSL modems where the higher speeds of VDSL aren't possible. The emphasis is as much on integrating the new services with existing telco systems as the new services themselves...
[March 11, 2002, 14:00]
Superfast DSL hits the (metropolitan) streets
News While this is possible with Asymmetric DSL (ADSL), the slower upstream speeds significantly affect the number of Web pages that can be delivered, and is particularly unsuitable for any sort of media streaming -- even with the company's new 8mbps...
[April 12, 2002, 8:42]
SBC gets boost from DSL and wireless
News SBC Communications reported solid second-quarter results on Wednesday thanks to strong growth in its wireless and DSL businesses. For the June quarter, EarthLink reported 346,000 broadband subscribers, the majority of which are DSL subscribers, and...
[July 25, 2001, 15:46]
Microsoft and Qwest ink US DSL pact
News DSL offers a high-speed link to the Net over ordinary phone lines. Although DSL enjoyed explosive growth in recent years, the economy's downturn has prompted some consumers to shy away from the higher-cost service for the time being.
[April 26, 2001, 14:53]
