Breathing new life into copper lines
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Telco Systems, the venerable maker of service-provider equipment, plans to introduce gear that can turn copper phone lines in an enterprise campus into 10M bit/sec voice/data links.
Telco Systems' CopperMax switch, which the company will show next month at ComNet 2001 in Washington, D.C., uses the fastest flavor of DSL - very-high data rate DSL - to make high-bandwidth links possible across short distances.
Carriers typically use slower DSL flavors that can travel over longer wires and, therefore, reach more customers. But on campuses and within buildings, VDSL can support LAN speeds at up to three-quarters of a mile.
In addition to campus applications, Telco Systems also envisions using the equipment to support voice and data traffic within buildings, such as hotels. CopperMax would sit in the basement of the hotel and take in lines from guest rooms. A separate filter would split off the voice traffic and divert it to the hotel's PBX. CopperMax does not offer a PBX.
The device will be available next year. Pricing is not set.
TelecoSystems: www.telco.com
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