Texas Instruments (TI) shipped more than 24 million DSL ports in 2003, and has now shipped over 40 million DSL ports to date. The company cited growing customer momentum in Asia and rapid adoption of the AR7 DSL modem-on-a-chip.
Texas Instruments also noted that Greg Bathrick, who heads the company’s worldwide DSL product management group, was elected to the DSL Forum’s Board of Directors earlier this month. Bathrick also serves as co-chair for the DSL Forum’s operations and network management working group, and the DSLHome technical working group. http://www.ti.com
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You just read about DSL. Here is what it replaced:
ISDN served 1986–2018. What ultimately replaced it?
ISDN digitized the local loop into 64 kbit/s B-channels for voice/data plus a 16 kbit/s D-channel for signaling (BRI = 2B+D), giving all-digital dial-up and faster call setup over ordinary copper. Its job passed to DSL — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
