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Re: People who purchase unproven technologies...DSL

  • From: Wojtek Zlobicki
  • Date: Mon May 14 16:56:03 2001 
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 07:53:50AM -0400, mike harrison wrote:
>
> > Why would anyone purchase dsl to run their business on. Let me guess,
the
> > price was right.
>
> I would call it a proven technology, but a very poor business model.
> And xDSL is definately not for mission critical operations.

>x is sometimes "H".

>Are you sure you want to say HDSL is not for mission-critical operations?


Very well put.  I do not think however that many cosider HDSL to be part to
the DSL family (mainlydue to the fact that it often uses two pairs instead
of one).  I think if we are talking xDSL, HDSL is in most cases excluded
from the picture.