Template talk:DSL technologies

Annex J and Annex L are only available in ITU G.992.3. --89.172.5.87 16:39, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Change from sidebar to navbox?
For many other protocols and standards, the navbox template is used, e.g. I believe that changing this custom table to a navbox would increase readability by allowing the various standards to be grouped. In addition, by using a well known template, the code would be easier to maintain and edit, and consistency between navboxes would be increased. Please comment. Conquerist (talk) 02:25, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
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Here's a draft:

Some pointers for comments / discussion: Conquerist (talk) 05:17, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Include official standard names? (G.99x.x)
 * First layer: symmetric / asymmetric, Second layer: standardized / proprietary or vice-versa?
 * "ANSI/ETSI/ITU-T" or "standardized"?
 * There are some more oddballs in DSL, they probably belong here as well
 * What should be done with the ambiguous terms ADSL and SDSL. Both can be used as umbrella terms, but also have more specific uses: ADSL in the article refers to a first generation set of asymmetric DSL, while SDSL in the article refers to a specific proprietary variant.
 * What about non-telephone local loop "DSL"? Those are in the current template, but do they really belong here?

New Draft:

Added most of the oddballs from Digital subscriber line. Some were hard to sort Also added G.fast. Sorting into asymmetric and symmetric is also tough on a few: Conquerist (talk) 20:27, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
 * RADSL: not a DSL standard of its own?
 * PDSL: "Powerline DSL" - DSL uses telephone lines per definition in digital subscriber line.
 * VDSL and G.fast really don't belong under asymmetric. Symmetric service is also possible, see ITU-T G.Sup50. Or, symmetric can be seen as a special case of asymmetric.
 * Etherloop: it's half-duplex, so it's technically symmetric, just not at the same time


 * Related discussion: Talk:Digital_subscriber_line. Conquerist (talk) 13:21, 14 February 2014 (UTC)