----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 5:52
AM
Subject: RE: [EFM-Copper] [EFM-copper]
update of carrier perspective on SHDSL presentation
Behrooz,
I
have some questions for you, as well. There seems to be some misunderstandings
occurring here that I hope you folks from the ADSL/DMT side could clear up.
These are related to the use of the "generic" term "ADSL." Is not the EFM
proposal from Doug based on Annex J and not the whole family of ADSL (the
generic ADSL term), as ADSL per se would not meet the Long Reach Objective
(generic ADSL is low bandwidth, asymmetric, etc.)? I believe any discussion of
ADSL should center not on the family of Annexes but on Annex J itself.
1)
If we consider Annex J then many answers to your points immediately become
apparent. For example, your item 1, which you partially answer yourself by
mentioning the embedded base and investment in ATM ADSL, has a more complete
answer when considering the incompatible nature of Annex J and this base. To
deploy Annex J and cause service deterioration in the existing base would be
foolish for an Operator.
2)
As to DSM in item 2... isn't this a "house of cards" theoretical technology
that would only work in a fully closed environment where only one DSL
technology is deployed from a single carrier? Otherwise, wouldn't this be
problematic where the service would be frequently disrupted by new disturbers
added by others that are outside the DSM domain? Well, I suppose this
discussion is all academic as DSM is not going to be anything more than
theoretical for at least 4-5 years.
3)
Your item 3 b) appears to use the generic ADSL term instead of Annex J.
The incompatibility of Annex J with existing base of ADSL should be made
clear. I hope that an open discussion occurs Monday as to the conflicts and
incompatibilities of Annex J and not a discussion of ADSL in a generic sense,
otherwise we are not doing a real comparison of Long Reach
technologies.
4)
By the way, what is the official title for Annex J anyway? I believe it is
"ADSL for operation above ISDN." If this Annex defines service as this,
does this mean we have a technology proposal based on one that would have
limited in deployment in NAFTA as well (few BRIs)? To be POTS compatible
versus ISDN would mean Annex J must be modified from the existing
recommendation to some new DSL definition which in turn makes this a
comparison of a well defined and standardized technology (g.SHDSL) and one
that is not standardized (Annex J changed for POTS)?
Behrooz, Happy New Year to you. I look forward to the conclusion of
this step in Vancouver and the opportunity for the Copper track to make some
serious headway. I expect many at EFM would like to see the year plus delaying
efforts in Copper stopped and some conclusions reached so that we finally move
ahead.
John
Marc thanks :-)
I have few questions for the operators (either
arms of business/technical/regulatory representatives) to help
me understand the situation a little bit better:
1) Do carriers think that
it may not be necessary to offer Ethernet to residential market
using ADSL. Could the reason be that they have invested so much
into ATM/ADSL that in fact it does not make sense to change strategy at
this point. In other words the ADSL volume already is so high (therefore
ADSL chipset cost so low) that it would cost them more money try to
introduce Ethernet over ADSL. Why mess with it when finally the inter-op is
working very well and all the operational stuff with $B dollars into it is
now mature
2) The other question could be regarding
the performance of SHDSL: is it as good or better than ADSL. I am
not sure what is real answer to this. There are two good presentations on
Monday, and to a large extend the performance data depends on the
assumptions on reach, binder composition, etc. So these will go
thru acid test on Monday. <However from the perspective of roadmap,
some new work and actual data based on DSM suggests for multi-pair
operation the results are very good based on ADSL-dmt >
3) Is binder segregation allowed. Some
operators may allow that, but in general my understanding is that will make
it more expensive. This is at least the comments I received from
some international operators. For example consider this:
a) If we assume binder segregation is allowed
then what is the segregation rule. Does it mean we separate all SHDSL and T1
in the same binder (symm) and all ADSLs, and POTs in other binders. In that
case the ADSL binder will outperform the SHDSL/T1 binder simply because it
is wider band and has more transmit power and it does not have to deal with
T1 Jammer PSD.
b) If we assume that binder
segregation is not allowed then it seems to me that ADSL will dominate the
composition of the binder by almost 4 to 1 and in that case we have to
make simulation assumptions based on those consideration, which again I
would see the results favor ADSL in more cases
Anyway I don't think there are simple
answers and I will be happy to receive my answers off
line.
I have also made a contribution recommending to
support both SHDSL and ADSL. I think this would result to a bigger footprint
for Ethernet.
Best Regards
Behrooz
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003
11:05 AM
Subject: [EFM-Copper] [EFM-copper]
update of carrier perspective on SHDSL presentation
All,
Since there are
additional names and the file is small, we thought it would be relevant to
send the latest carrier perspective on SHDSL presentation
(easley_copper_1_0103) by email as well as uploading it on the
server.
See you in
Vancouver,
Marc