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Ubiquitous Cost-Effective Gigabit Per Second Broadband Access:
It's Coming, And Not The Way You Think!
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Dr. John Cioffi describes DSL capacity and management technique.
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White Papers
Methods for Supporting Vectoring when Multiple Service Providers Share the Cabinet Area
FASTWEB/ASSIA Vectoring White Paper, April 2012
By A. Colmegna, S. Galli, M. Goldburg
Compatibility of Vectored and Non-Vectored VDSL2
IEEE Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, March 21-23, 2012
By K. Kerpez, J. Cioffi, S. Galli, G. Ginis, M. Goldburg, and M. Mohseni
DSL Books
Understanding Digital Subscriber Line Technology
Thomas Starr, John M. Cioffi and Peter J. Silverman, Prentice Hall PTR, 1998.
(Paperback for purchase on Amazon.com)
DSL Advances
Thomas Starr, Massimo Sorbara, John M. Cioffi and Peter J. Silverman, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002.
(Paperback for purchase on Amazon.com)
Research
For more information about John Cioffi’s research on DSL, Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM), and other advanced communication topics, please check: http://www.stanford.edu/group/cioffi/
Industry Articles
Jeff Weber on the growth of AT&T U-verse and plug & play home networks
FierceTelecom
August 3, 2011
The effects of vectored DSL on network operations ( PDF )
Journal of Telecommunications Management
July 2010
Very fast VDSL, vectoring and virtual unbundling: the next superfast broadband compromise? (PDF)
Telecoms.com
July 9, 2010
Vectored DSL to the Rescue
OSP Magazine
April 2010
The ADSL Revolution, 10 Years In (French)
Les Echos, March 13, 2007
ADSL saw its first commercial European deployments in the Spring of 1997. Today, ADSL has become the primary means of broadband access in France, with more than 12 million subscribers…Dynamic Spectrum Management…has already begun a second youth for ADSL, offering increasing data rates, improved service quality, and expanded footprint… Page 1 > Page 2 >