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SAMRA WAHID ALI BS08101056

TYPES OF DSL:
ADSL
Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) is the popular of all the DSL types. Several homes and small businesses find ADSL easy to use. ADSL provides high speed transmission of information at a high bandwidth over regular phone lines. Unlike dialup phone, ADSL gives consumers permanent internet connectivity. ADSL can contain both analog and digital information on the same telephone line. ADSL is said to be asymmetric because most of the bandwidth is used to transmit information downstream. DATA RATE:You can have speeds up to 8 Megabits per second which translates into over 100 times faster the speed of regular dial up. Upstream speed can be up to 640 Kbps.

SDSL
Symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL) is best suited for delivering symmetric connectivity to users. SDSL also uses the regular telephone lines but can offer several services along the same line. With SDSL, you can have a private line, digital voice transmission, and Internet Protocol (IP), or frame relay on the same line. Due to its symmetric nature, it provides a consistent upload and download transmission speeds. The rate of receiving data is the same as sending. DATA RATE: SDSL can offer speeds up to 2.3 mbps.

TYPES OF SDSL: SHDSL

Symmetric high-speed DSL (SHDSL) is another version of SDSL, which attempts to improve on both HDSL and SDSL by only requiring a single line and by integrating low-level services of interest to small businesses. As the latest development in DSL technology, SHDSL delivers standards-based, high-speed, symmetric DSL over a single copper pair. DATA RATE:G.shdsl is a version of symmetrical rate adaptive DSL that can accommodate line rates from 192 kilobits per second (kbps) to 2.3 megabits per second (Mbps).

IDSL

IDSL is another variation of technology which permits users to use regular ISDN card technology for transmission of only data. DATA RATE: DSL which can offer data speeds of up to 144 kbps.

HDSL-2
High bit rate digital subscriber line (HDSL-2) is a more recent type of DSL. It was created to replace T1pE1 lines and the earlier HDSL technology. DATARATE:HDSL-2 can transmit data up to speeds of 1.5 Megabits per second (Mbps) across a single pair of copper wires and covers distances of up to 12,000 feet. HDSL-2 supports interoperability; meaning different vendors can interconnect each other without problems of software or hardware incompatibility. HDSL-2 also supports voice, data, video using asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), private-line T1 service and frame relay. .

VDSL
Very high bit rate digital subscriber line (VDSL) is one of the newest developments in DSL. VDSL delivers fast data rates across short distances - the shorter the distance, the faster the connectivity. DATA RATE: VDSL can produce speeds up to 55 Megabits per second (Mbps) over a distance of 1,000 feet. VDSL connects to neighborhood optical network units (ONUs), which then extends connectivity to the telephone company's central office (CO) main fiber network backbone. Thus, users on this service can obtain the highest bandwidth any phone line can offer.
G.LITE G.Lite bears similarity to ADSL. It offers low speed data transfer by eliminating the need for POTS splitters at the customers end.

DATA RATE:G.Lite is easy to install and chap but have a lower rate of 1.5 mbps downstream and 384kbps upstream.