DSL Forum Focuses on Next Generation Applications And DSL Standards.Business Editors LISBON, Portugal--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2003 Remarkable Diversity Characterizes DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary Deployments Around the Globe The DSL Forum The DSL Forum is a world wide consortium of about 200 companies which are part of the different divisions of the telecommunication and information technology sector. The DSL Forum was founded in 1994 and is used as a platform for companies that operate in the broadband market. meetings in Lisbon had a focus on emerging technologies and shared news of commercial deployments of further standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. DSL services using ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line 2, ADSL2plus and SHDSL SHDSL Single-Line High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line SHDSL Symmetrical High-Density Digital Subscriber Line SHDSL Symmetrical High Bitrate Digital Subscriber Line (Ericsson) SHDSL Symmetrical Highspeed Digital Subscriber Loop all coming on stream around the world in 2003. Additionally, the global DSL Forum learned that more than half of the world's broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). subscribers use DSL technology, as London-based industry analyst firm, Point Topic announced 56.5% of the world's broadband subscribers are connected through DSL, followed by cable modems cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. (38%) and Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. (4.7%). Equipment for ADSL2 and ADSL2plus, meeting the approved ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. standards (International Telecommunications Union See ITU. (body, standard) International Telecommunications Union - (ITU) ITU-T, the telecommunication standardisation sector of ITU, is responsible for making technical recommendations about telephone and data (including fax) communications systems for PTTs and suppliers. ) is expected to become available before the end of the year and will interoperate See interoperable. with existing ADSL service equipment. "That will allow carriers to build into their infrastructure the flexibility to offer a range of asymmetric A difference between two opposing modes. It typically refers to a speed disparity. For example, in asymmetric operations, it takes longer to compress and encrypt data than to decompress and decrypt it. Contrast with symmetric. See asymmetric compression and public key cryptography. broadband DSL services with greater speed and extended reach," said Tom Starr, president of the DSL Forum. "This is a cost-effective route to meeting the upgrade demands of some existing customers and providing greater performance consistency over longer distances for customers currently beyond the scope of existing ADSL." Just as Asymmetric DSL (ADSL) is becoming a necessity instead of a luxury around the world, Very high bit rate DSL (VDSL See DSL. VDSL - Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line ) is taking off, supporting higher bandwidth applications, extending DSL's mass market growth around the world. South Korea, with more than 28% DSL penetration of main phone lines and 6.45 million DSL subscribers, is already the world's leading country for mass market DSL. Now it is leading the way to even more connection speed and wider services as 360,000 subscribers upgraded to VDSL in the first quarter of 2003, bringing Korea to a total of a half million VDSL lines. "Those half million subscribers are now connected to streaming videos A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. and online gaming See gaming. capacities that film fans, soap opera soap opera Broadcast serial drama, characterized by a permanent cast of actors, a continuing story, tangled interpersonal situations, and a melodramatic or sentimental style. buffs The name Buffs can mean:
Point Topic analysis and various service providers' reports pointed to broadband DSL advancements of self-install and automated provisioning The ability to set up new communications services for customers automatically. Carriers use automated provisioning to set up their network based on customers' requirements. Such systems control all network devices from a central console and greatly speed up deployment time from days to , building upon DSL Forum's technical work, as today's reasons for their significantly improved business cases for DSL. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Portugal Telecom's Jorge Peneda, manager of wholesale services, "The key to future competitiveness is meeting customer expectations. That requires clear and well communicated service levels for installation, fault repair, available speeds combined with automated provisioning to minimise cost and maximise the positive customer experience." Dr. Balazs Varga, Sr. Development Management of Matav, Hungary's primary DSL service provider who also addressed DSL Forum at the Summit in Portugal, highlighted the need to support power users, including bandwidth on demand services, providing end users with dynamic service selection to meet their specific service requirements - from simple email access to video distribution via the Internet. DSL Forum's new European Market Focus Group built upon this theme. They will be surveying service providers to assess current best practices to support power users and driving specifications to evolve networks to efficiently meet those customer's needs. "DSL technology is the most effective route to delivering global mass market broadband," said Tom Starr, president of the DSL Forum. "The core infrastructure of a billion phone lines is already in place. Our role is to provide the technical, operational, knowledge sharing and end user education to facilitate that we reach our mass market target of 200 million DSL subscribers around the world by the end of 2005."
TABLE 1
Key indicators for high penetration of DSL in the world's leading
broadband countries were reported to the DSL Forum meeting by Point
Topic, highlighting five likely conditions:
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Pointers to high penetration Pointers to low-penetration
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Late arrival of significant High Internet penetration with
Internet usage. In these dial-up access before broadband
countries, Internet adopters arrived. Customers who have
have gone straight to broadband established dial-up access and
access rather than via dial-up. find it satisfactory are slow to
migrate to broadband.
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High dial-up access costs. Low dial-up access costs for
Internet usage. If ISP calls
are free or cheap, or there is a
well-established fixed-rate
Internet access tariff,
customers are reluctant to incur
the extra expense of broadband.
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More limited competing media. Strong and well-established
Korea is a good example, where competing media. The UK
broadband-connected Internet provides a leading example,
cafes filled a cultural need and where the rise of digital
gave the market a kick-start. television (satellite, broadcast
But Internet usage in general and terrestrial) has been the
also reaches its highest main mass-media development in
percentages in northern recent years, displacing a lot
countries where the demand for of budget and attention from the
home entertainment on dark potential of the Internet.
winter nights is strongest
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Consumer enthusiasm for new A regulatory approach focused on
technology. Korea, Taiwan, Hong encouraging full competition
Kong, Canada and the rather than protecting incumbent
Scandinavian countries (in which monopolies or oligopolies. This
we should include Estonia) could view runs contrary to much of
all be said to benefit from this the conventional wisdom - and
effect. vocal claims by lobbyists -
about the effects of
deregulation and the creation of
competitive markets. In fact
the circumstantial evidence is
that policies of restricting
incumbent freedom of action, in
the USA and the UK for example,
have had the effect of
discouraging the incumbents from
rolling out broadband without
stimulating enough rollout by
independent competitors in their
place.
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Regulatory policies encouraging Weak and often ill-informed
monopoly or oligopoly rollout. government support for
Again, Korea provides the broadband.
leading example of government-
sponsored oligopoly supporting
major investment in the
broadband area. Incumbent-
favouring regulation has
supported high DSL rollouts in
countries such as Taiwan and
Germany. Policy in the highest-
penetration countries has
generally discouraged outright
free competition.
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Vigorous and effective government
support. Again, this is often
quoted, quite rightly, as a
major factor in Korea's
broadband success but it has
been important in a number of
other countries such as Canada
and Sweden.
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Source: Point Topic; the opinions in this table are not necessarily
endorsed by the DSL Forum.
About DSL Forum DSL Forum is a consortium of nearly 200 leading industry telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , equipment, computing computing - computer , networking and service provider companies. Established in 1994, the Forum continues its drive for a mass market for broadband DSL, to deliver the benefits of this technology to end users around the world over existing copper telephone wire infrastructures. In eight years, DSL Forum has moved through defining the core 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 technology to delivering maximum effectiveness in its deployment and use. More information on DSL Forum is available from its industry site www.dslforum.org. Information tailored to end-users is available on *www.dsllife.com. DSL - more than a phone line . . .it's a global solution. |
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