What does xDSL offer the Internet service provider?
Today, high speed Internet access is seen by many as the first “killer” application of xDSL – there is a pent up demand for higher access speeds and only xDSL can practically provide these speeds. Today’s analog modems routinely offer 28.8 Kbps or 33.6 Kbps and, in a few but growing number of instances, up to 56kbps. However, 56 Kbps is probably the practical limit for analog modems. ISDN can increase this to 128 Kbps but this is still slow compared to xDSL speeds of up to 2 Mbps. xDSL will open a whole new world of virtually instantaneous downloading of massive graphics and even video applications over the Internet.
