Introduction

Introduction

Purpose

Scope

Introduction

This brief chapter summarizes the purpose, scope, assumptions, and intended audience of this document. The remainder of the document is split into two parts:

Purpose

This document has two chief goals:

To present various digital subscriber line (DSL) architectures as models for customers as they plan for DSL deployment.
To illustrate how Cisco redundancy features can be used to support DSL environments and to explain how these features can be used to achieve reliability in a DSL Network.

Scope

This document addresses design and implementation of Cisco DSL technology solutions for remote customer premise equipment (CPE), central office (CO) CPE, and service provider (SP) equipment.

Technologies addressed in the architecture portion of this document include:

Redundancy topics addressed include:

Intended Audience

This document is intended for but not restricted to the following audience

Professional Services
NSA consultants
Training
TAC
DSL customers

Document assumes that the reader has

Advanced xDSL technology knowledge
Familiarity with xDSL Architecture Components

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Introduction

Purpose

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