Featured Service - Copper Optix SHDSL

Enter SHDSL, a symmetric, multi-rate DSL combining the best of SDSL and HDSL2, it's aimed at users of DSL for voice, data and Internet access services. Beside being faster and stretching longer distances, SHDSL carries an international pedigree. It's a global standard (G.91.2) developed by the International Telecommunications Union's (ITU) Telecommunications Standards Sector based in Geneva. By contrast, SDSL, the current DSL service of choice for business applications, is hardly recognized outside North America.

Speed and distance are other factors that strengthen SHDSL. The new standard delivers up to 2.3 Mbps per second—compared to 2.0 Mbps for SDSL. It can be paired so speeds can be increased at 4.6 Mbps per second, 9.2 Mbps per second, 18.4 Mbps per second, etc. It can also be deployed nearly twice as far from the central office (CO) than SDSL, which is limited to a maximum distance of 18,000 feet.