HDSL2 Issues Move Toward Resolution

Vendors working toward the HDSL2 standard for single-pair high bit-rate digital subscriber line seem determined to avoid a winter of discontent. With seven weeks until the next standards committee meeting, the major vendors last week marshalled a tide of goodwill to drown out the earlier buzz of a technology war in the making.

ADC Telecommunications and Level One Communications, partners in HDSL development, updated industry watchers on HDSL2's development and said vendors are close to agreeing on a line code scheme to meet the spectral compatibility requirements for the standard.