1999 xDSL Comprehensive Report

Format: Softcover, 372 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-59-5
Price: $396

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: Business and Economic Issues of xDSL

• An Overview of DSL Products
• ADSL Business Challenges
• Investing in Managing the Last Mile
• xDSL Fundamentals
• xDSL: Opportunities for PC Vendors
• Future Directions of XDSL
• Co-Location Issues and Opportunities
• Breaking the xDSL Profitability Barrier
• Telefuture: Driving Trends in Telecom Networks

Part II: Deployment Issues and Results

• xDSL Early Deployment Results: Valley Telephone Cooperative
• ADSL Deployment Realities: A Look beyond the Local Loop
• Considerations for xDSL Deployment
• Deploying xDSL on the Private Loop
• Early Deployment Results and DSL Market Acceptance
• DSL Data Service Profitability: Competitive Local-Exchange Carrier Analysis
• Early Deployment Results
• VDSL Performance: Mixed-Services Deployment

Part III: Technology and Architectures

• xDSL Technology Tutorial
• Cable Modems: A Broadband Solution to the Home
• Alternative Broadband Access Technologies
• The Bright Future of ATM and DSL Access Networks
• Etherloop
• Architectural Considerations for Implementing xDSL Technologies
• DSL Modem Standards: Removing the Access Bottleneck
• Directions in DSL: Silicon Connectivity Solutions
• xDSL Deployment Strategy Based on a Migration from an IP–Based to a Cell-Based Architecture
• Comparison of Cell-Based and Packet-Based DSLAM Architectures
• Customer-Premises Network Architecture for DSL Remote Access
• Turning Copper into Gold
• Semiconductor Trends and Opportunities
• Network Operations and Management
• xDSL Backbone Solutions
• ADSL Operations and Network Management
• Switched Digital Broadband Fiber-to-the-Node with VDSL
• The Evolution of Copper Access Transmission from Voiceband Modems to DSL Technologies

Part IV: Services, Applications, and End-User Requirements

• Supercharging Telecom Products with ADSL Technology
• Lessons Learned from ISDN Deployment
• A Solution Suite for the xDSL Provisioning Process
• DSL System Integration
• DSL Technology: Simply the Best Choice

Part V: Standards, Regulation, and Compatibility Issues

• Computer-Industry Support of xDSL
• Defining "Digital" Loops: Avoiding Re-Monopolization in a Digital World
• Computer-Industry Issues for Universal ADSL
• Formal DSL Standards Progress
• Cooperation among High-Speed Internet Access Technologies
• xDSL Regulatory Developments
• xDSL Standards
• ADSL: Harmonizing the Industry