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Re: You forgot about videophones (useful for the deaf among us)! (was: Re: adsl)




----- Original Message -----
From: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't *DSL technology allows for a fixed
> *total* bandwidth, and it is up to the implementation to decide how much
> bandwidth it reserves for each direction? The 64kbps choice was probably
made
> because typical users don't send much upstream (forget about videophones
for
> a moment...) and reserving, say 500mbps for upstream will mean that most
of that
> bandwidth will be wasted. So why can't Bezek give some of the users DSL
lines
> with a different bandwidth division? Please correct me if I have made
wrong
> assumptions.
You are wrong (sorry). ADSL is completly asynchronous (that's what the A
stands for).

Oded

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