DSL Forum Issues Interoperability Plan for SHDSL

The DSL Forum issued a new technical report (TR-060) that specifies the equipment interoperability testing plan for SHDSL, which supports speeds up to 2.3 Mbps and reach of up to 18,000 ft. SHDSL, which is being positioned as an access technology for small and medium-sized businesses and for remote offices of larger organizations, was ratified by the ITU in February 2001.


TR-060 builds on TR-048, the DSL Forum's testing plan for ADSL equipment interoperability that has become the international industry measure used by independent testing laboratories (ITLs) authorized by the DSL Forum.


Three further DSL Forum TRs published this month update existing core work on interfaces and system configurations for ADSL customer premises (TR-061), auto-configuration (TR-062) and VDSL network element management (TR-063).


All of the reports are available from the DSL Forum.http://dslforum.org/aboutdsl/tr_table.html