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[James Sharp]

> This explains perfectly why my little burg doesn't have DSL, but T1 and
> ISDN are availible. I live about 1 mile (farthest possible cable loop)
> from the fiber mux that trunks into $LOCAL_BIG_CITY. DSL, never being done
> over fiber, means that a DSLAM *must* be located out here "in the
> boonies".

There are DSLAMS and DSL extender cards that go into the SLICs and fiber
muxes...but right now they're prohibitively expenseive.  Putting them
there also means the telco has to provision additional bandwidth and
network management to support those cards.

http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/adsl_dlc/topic02.html  shows the
problems and solutions faced by running [A,S]DSL via fibre muxes.