Top Reasons to Use DSL For High-Speed Remote Access

The End User/Customer Perspective

DSL stands for Digital Subscriber Line - a technology which transforms plain old telephone lines into a high speed conduit for data, information, entertainment and more. And while it is doing that, you can still use your telephone for normal conversations at the same time. That provides enormous advantages whether at home or at work.

DSL provides affordable high-speed remote access to the Internet, corporate networks and on-line services over ordinary phone lines.

Nearly 300 times faster than 24.4 Kbps modems
Over 100 times faster than 56 Kbps modems
70 times faster than 128 Kbps ISDN

DSL enables use of real-time, interactive multimedia and broadcast-quality video for such new services as collaborative computing, video conferencing, distance learning and video-on-demand.

DSL gives you the facility to have both voice and data services in use simultaneous and all over one phone line. Both residential and businesses properties around the world are already running out of spare lines on existing installed telephone cables so effectively doubling your capacity in this way is a real benefit.

DSL provides a private, secure channel of communications between you and the service provider.

Your data travels along you own line, unlike cable telephone and modem services where the line is shared with others.

Because it is your own dedicated line, transmission speeds are not affected by other users going on-line. With cable modems, transmission speeds do drop significantly as more users go on-line.

DSL is "always on" and connected - just like your telephone. This means that there is no time wasted dialing up the service several times a day and waiting to be connected - DSL is on standby, waiting ready for use whenever you are.

The Service Provider Perspective

1. DSL enables telephone companies to use the world's nearly 750 million existing copper wires to deliver affordable high-speed remote access to the Internet, corporate networks and on-line services over ordinary phone lines. Essentially, DSL provides the means to deliver next generation broadband services over existing telcom networks enabling a quick time-to-time market advantage.

2. DSL enables new applications that require real-time, interactive multimedia and broadcast-quality video. Such applications include collaborative computing, video conferencing, distance learning and video-on-demand.

3. The industry is rapidly converging on standards that will enable interoperability and ultimately make a mass market possible.

4. DSL empowers service providers to provide either a guaranteed sustained rate or alternatively a rate adaptive or best effort service similar to analog modems.

Nearly 300 times faster than 24.4 Kbps modems
Over 100 times faster than 56 Kbps modems
70 times faster than 128 Kbps ISDN

5. Both residential and businesses properties around the world are already running out of spare lines on existing installed telephone cables. DSL provides service providers with the capability to use one line to provide new data services while maintaining the telephone service on the same line, thus leveraging the existing infrastructure.

6. DSL provides telcos with the ability to offer a private, secure channel of communications between the consumer and the service provider:

Data travels along the customers own line, unlike cable telephone and modem services where the line is shared with others. Because it is one customer's dedicated line, transmission speeds are not affected by other users going on-line. With cable modems, transmission speeds do drop significantly as more users go on-line

7. DSL is "always on" and connected - just like a standard telephone. There is no time wasted dialing up the service several times a day and waiting to be connected - DSL is on standby, waiting ready for use whenever your customer is ready.

8. Every major service provider has conducted trials and proven that the technology works. Today, service providers are rolling out DSL services worldwide. In support of this market, a large number of major equipment vendors are shipping second and third-generation products offering higher performance and lower cost.

9. DSL-based networks are well suited for carrying ATM traffic, thus future-proofing DSL technology for decades to come.

10. DSL provides the communication bridge into the next century, without added new infrastructure, costly outside plant additions and reinvestment.

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