Delivering xDSL

Written by telecom experts Lawrence Harte and Roman Kikta, Delivering xDSL takes you inside this technology family for an incisive, unbiased look at every important dynamic of capability, cost, compatibility, and competitiveness and over 100 key applications. Delivering xDSL can help you:

• Prepare for and implement over 100 key high-bandwidth applications that use DSL
  
• Compare pluses and minuses of competing DSL technologies
  
• Contrast DSL with other products
  
• Align DSL choices with most-wanted applications
  
• Link DSL with AIN, the Internet, and other networks
  
• Avoid choices with a short shelf-life
  
• Attract customers with competitively priced, bundled, full-service communications packages
  
• Choose and deploy the right equipment for effective DSL delivery
  
• Manage DSL systems efficiently
  
• Make DSL work on the bottom line
  

For telecom engineers, technicians, and managers who'd rather lead than phone it in-here are the detailed and easy-to-understand DSL answers you want to coax maximum leverage from your phoneline advantage. Delivering xDSL is the guidebook that makes DSL work. In fact, it's the one book you need to make your company work in the new, high-speed digital communications marketplace.

Contents

• Introduction/Terminology
  
• Digital Telephony
  
• xDSL Technologies
  
• Competing Technologies
  
• DSL End User Equipment
  
• DSL Networks
  
• DSL System Economics
  
• Developing DSL Technologies
  
• DSL Services and Applications
  
• Product and Services Listing
  
• Company Listing