There are many flavours of DSL technology, but three stand out: ADSL (Asymmetric DSL), DSL Lite and HDSL (High bit-rate DSL). DSL brings high-bandwidth capabilities to the existing copper wire telephone network.
BT is promoting a 512Kb line, but it is Asymmetric DSL (ADSL) which means the speed offered is one way - to the consumer, not away - and it is run over a shared network so the more users there are the less bandwidth there is, Ostergaard said.
Businesses in the area will be offered symmetric DSL (SDSL) services with faster upload speeds, which, it is claimed, are more suited to some business applications than standard asymmetric DSL (ADSL) services.
We only need to compare the 'transaction code' type of front-end systems written some years ago, with the more intuitive, web-based facilities that we now develop to realise that a consumer type revolution has affected us all - for the good.
Gartner's 10 year IT vision predicts a fundamental shift in the balance of power between big business and the consumer and between supplier and customer, leading to significant challenges for all organisations regardless of size and business sector.
China is riding a wave of consumerism, part of which is undoubtedly fuelled by the internet. As development rumbles on at incredible speed (eight per cent GDP growth last year), China's people are harnessing the power of the internet to trade, talk...
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