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From: jonathan@rahul.net (Jonathan Heiliger)
Subject: Re: Video on demand --- info requested
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:30:04 GMT

	In article <1992Nov5.141630.10937@walter.bellcore.com> 
	jxr@thumper.bellcore.com (Jonathan Rosenberg) writes:

	best you can attain on those right now is about 14.4 kb/s, with a
	modem).  But there is a technology that is beginning to move out of the
	lab that can support T1 rates (1.544 Mb/s) to most residences over the
	existing copper plant.  This technology is known as ADSL (Asymmetric

> Actually a T1 line still runs over normal copper wire.  True, you usually 
> need a hub & a hub adaptor for it; however it's still a normal phone wire.  

The key to ADSL is "to most residences over the existing copper plant". 
It is my understanding that while T1 uses a "normal phone wire"
(actually a wire pair), it is not suitable for use over the vast
majority of wire pairs running to residences.  To get T1 somewhere
normally requires pulling new wires.  To get ADSL to most places just
requires a new network terminator in the residence (as well as some
stuff at the CO end, of course).  Big difference.

JR