[179678] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ADSL Line Extenders
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colton Conor)
Tue Apr 28 20:52:42 2015
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:52:38 -0500
From: Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Cc: NANOG <Nanog@nanog.org>
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I know a couple of LECs that use these with success:
http://actelis.com/actelis-products/broadband-amplifiers/
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei <
jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> A friend on a rural DSl association asked about ADSL line extenders.
>
> A search on Google yields many products dating back to the days of
> ADSL-1 advertising 1mbps profiles, but a few seem more recent and
> support ADSL2+ (not sure if any support VDSL2).
>
> Are these thing out of date and no longer deployed ? Were they ever
> effective, or just vapourware that didn't really improve things ?
>
>
> Do any Telcos still deploy them ? Anyone know of deployments in Canada ?
>
> I just need a reality check on those devices.
>
> jf
>
