ADSL pricing for schools. (Internet Focus).A major conference organised by DIALnet, entitled 'Broadband - The Education Ravolution' saw the company announce it's strategy for ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and ) provision to the education sector, and gave a 150 strong audience of education professionals alive demonstration of SDSL See DSL. SDSL - Single-line Digital Subscriber Line (Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line) technology. This will become available through DIALnet later this year. Delegates heard how schools will be able DIALnet's 'ADSL Connect' service for [pounds sterling]2,100 per year for an 'always an' connection, with a setup fee of [pounds sterling]450. Also included in the ADSL Connect package is the full range of DIALnet's OSP service especially tailored for the education sector; including free webspace, centrally managed Education filtering and Email services. Broadband connections will allow schools to connect to the internet at speeds of up to 2 Megabits per second (unit) megabits per second - (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps. (Mbps) -16 times faster than the speeds offered by a single ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. connection, and up to 40 times faster than a standard dial-up connection. www.dialnet.com |
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