HARDWARE

WHAT IS SDSL?
- Definition
- Information About
- Uses of SDSL

ADVANTAGES
- High Speed
Access
- Connectivity

HARDWARE
- Modem
- NIC/Ethernet Card

     

The only way to connect through SDSL is to have an SDSL modem.  Depending on your service provider they might charge you for them or get it free.  

One of the very popular SDSL modems is the CopperRocket 201 SDSL from Copper Mountain.  It requires a standard DSL RJ-11 jack and a 10BASE-T Ethernet card (IEEE 802.3) with MDI/MDI-X connectors (RJ-45).  It can connect to a max of 1.5Mbps, but the actual user data rate is estimated around 1544Kbps.  It was released in early August 2000 to many SDSL service providers for its customers.  The popular internet hardware solutions company 3Com merged with Copper Mountain and distribute this modem (along with others) to anyone who orders SDSL.  

Just this past December, Hong Kong's biggest provider of Internet Access Pacific Internet chose to install Copper Mountain Solutions for their new DSL Broadband Service they are offering.  Much of the equipment they now have is all Copper Mountain licensed.  Wong Kok Hoou, deputy director of engineering and network operations for Pacific Internet notes that its main product that they chose from Copper Mountain "is ideal for deployment in both the central office and multi-tenant unit environments in which Pacific Internet operates. Its Internet Protocol (IP) service intelligence enables us to reduce our provisioning costs and easily scale services." 
-(http://www.coppermountain.com/news/12032000pr.html)

Below are two different angle pictures of the CopperRocket 201 SDSL.

FRONT SIDE VIEW OF COPPERROCKET 201 MODEM

BACK SIDE VIEW OF COPPERROCKET 201 MODEM