sidential locations where downstream speeds are more important than upstream speeds.G.Lite or Splitterless DSL, also known as ADSL Lite or Universal DSL was developed for its ease and speed of installation. G.Lite uses the advantage of remotely splitting the telephone line at the phone companys central office (CO). It can handle the same speeds as the ADSL of up to 6mbps downstream and 1 mbps upstream. The main difference between ADSL and G.Lite is that the phone company is not required to visit the customers premises for installation. After the telephone company is set up to support G.Lite all they need to do is grant access to the customer and send out the necessary hardware and software to the customers premises. By doing this, phone companies are not limited by the number of customers that can be setup within a given time frame. G.Lite is not attractive to small businesses but the user-friendly equipment often appeals to the common Internet user who wants to do the installation on his/her own.Finally, VDSL (Very high data rate DSL) is just around the corner. This new version of DSL is still in development, but appears to have some great potential. It promises to offer transfer rates around 55 mbps downstream and around 2 mbps upstream using the same copper wires as other forms of DSL. The distance is quite restrictive, and requires the users to fall between 300 meters to 1.4 km from the CO. VDSL is being developed for bringing a high-speed infrastructure closer to the customers premises. This is an attractive alternative from using FTTC (Fiber to the Curb) or FTTN (Fiber to the Neighborhood), but will not be available for the majority of the market until it can figure out how to break out of this 4,000-foot radius restriction.Although the future promises new and better Internet technologies, DSL is the current choice for high-speed Internet access. It has dramatically affected todays telecommunications technology and sho...
