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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]
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]
Channelized Voice Over DSL (CVoDSL): Residential Voice Over DSL Technology For Multi-Service Access Platform (MSAP) Equipment
White Papers CVoDSL is supported by several leading DSL equipment and silicon vendors in standards-setting initiatives currently in progress at the DSL Forum and ITU. The VeDSL term is an Aware brand of a technology more broadly referred to in the DSL...
[November 23, 2006, 23:00]
WiMAX Overview And MCI Perspective
White Papers As envisioned by proponents, WiMAX point-to-multipoint radio systems will initially compete with other fixed broadband access systems, such as DSL and cable, and ultimately with mobile wireless data systems.
[January 17, 2005, 23:00]
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 10, 2005, 23:00]
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]
3Com Warns, Discontinues Cable, DSL
News French network equipment maker Alcatel sold its DSL business to Thomson Multimedia in a stock deal worth $389m. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet news forum. The network equipment maker, which has announced warnings for three...
[June 8, 2001, 8:52]
Wireless To Play A 'major Role' In US Broadband Growth
News The Federal Communications Commission is stepping up efforts to establish wireless as a viable broadband option to cable and DSL in order to make high-speed Internet access available to all Americans by 2007.
[May 21, 2004, 9:10]
