RAD's new FDSL-101 transparently extends DSL lines over fiber, reducing the need to purchase and deploy under-utilized DSLAMs

March 10, 2003

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TEL AVIV -- RAD Data Communications has announced that at CeBIT 2003 in Hanover it will launch the FDSL-101™, its new Fiber DSL (FDSL™) extender, which allows DSL lines to be extended transparently up to 20 kilometers from the central office over fiber optic infrastructure.“Carriers would like to provide the highest data rates to as many DSL customers as possible, but there is a trade-off between rate and range, so that high rate services can be provided only to a limited distance, while remote customers currently receive either a low bit rate or no service at all,” explains Avi Katz, Senior Product Line Manager at RAD Data Communications. The shorter the range the greater the data rate, and the longer the range the smaller the data rate. “In order to provide high speed services, such as video on demand or TV, the distance has to be shortened between the customer and the service provider,” Katz continues. “The FDSL-101 DSL-over-fiber extender does exactly that by significantly increasing DSL’s range, enabling high speed services to reach further.”In maximizing existing infrastructure, RAD’s FDSL solution takes full advantage of existing DSLAMs at the carrier’s central office (CO). The FDSL-101, therefore, yields immediate savings on capital expenses by freeing carriers from having to purchase additional DSLAMs and deploy them in the field. Operation and maintenance costs are also reduced, since management is concentrated at the CO, rather than spread among dozens of remote sites.“The FDSL opens up to carriers a whole new world of DSL customers,” Katz points out. Until now, small offices and home offices (SOHOs) often have had to forfeit DSL service because it is simply not economical for a carrier to purchase a DSLAM that would serve a few clusters of small enterprise customers. “In extending DSL’s range without having to deploy additional DSLAMs,” Katz notes, “the FDSL allows carriers by offer DSL services to these same pool of potential users who, until now, they have had to pass over.”RAD Data Communications Ltd.

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