As far as I can tell - you can't get real dsl to fiber fed home - under the current scenario of DSLAM in the central office. By definition, DSL runs over copper. The only way to get DSL to fiber fed homes is to put the DSLAM out in the field at the consumer end of the fiber but outside of the home. They would have to have neighborhood DSLAMs. I am not sure this is cost effective for most. You need air conditioning and the like in these units. IDSL does run over fiber now. Northpoint and Rythms already offer this service. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Adam Maloney <adamm at sihope.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG:20045] DSL > IDSL is just ISDN, provisioned just like ISDN but it doesn't use the > 16kb D channel for signalling, so your throughput rate is increased from > 128k to 144k. That's why the pricing is almost identical to ISDN. But > yes, it should run over fiber and the 18kft distance limit is > non-existant. US-West was supposedly working on another solution to > get "real" DSL to fiber-fed homes but I haven't heard any news on that. > To me their roll-out of iDSL is like waving the white flag above their > little foxhole...they give up. > > Adam Maloney > Systems Administrator > Sihope Communications > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org