>
> As I see it what we are being told is that adsl must run both
> directions at
> the slower of the two asymetrical speeds, Dan then says "I
> don't see a
> problem with that" Neither do I if that speed is enough for
> your needs.
> However if you want some thing faster office to office then
> SDSL will be
> faster on the VPN but slower on the general net stuff.
>
> Thats the trade off, faster VPN or faster general net.
>
>
Agreed.

In the end, the requirements generally dictate the solution...not least of
those requirements being cost effectiveness.

I'm not knocking Dan's position, there may well be many small installations
where the Rate Adaptive flexibility of ADSL and the faster access to the net
outweighs the need fo faster inter-office communiction. In any case, 'slow'
is a relative term...those of us who were stuck on the wrong end of a low
CIR 64k Frame Relay WAN for many years would have killed for 600k uplink!

On the other hand, fixed, reliable rate higher bandwidth in te 1-1.5 Mb/s
range (subject to the vagaries of the 'Net of course) may be the thing you
need most.

Rgds,

Rob Edkins
Systems Consultant
Axon Computertime
email: rob.edkins@axon.co.nz

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Received on Tue Feb 22 11:23:38 2000