Single-pair High-speed Digital Subscriber Line - SHDSL Standards

SHDSL Standards

The industry standard for shdsl is defined by ITU-T recommendation G.991.2. This was first published in February 2001. SHDSL equipment is also known by the standard's draft name of G.SHDSL. Major updates to G.991.2 were released in December 2003. Equipment conforming to the 2003 version of G.991.2 is often referred to by the standard's draft name of G.SHDSL.bis or just SHDSL.bis. The updated G.991.2 features:

• Optional support for up to four copper pair connections
• Optional extensions to allow user data rates up to 5696 kbit/s, described in Appendix F.
• Optional support for dynamic rate repartitioning, allowing flexible change of the SHDSL data rate without service interruption, described in Appendix E.10.3.
• New payload definitions including Ethernet packet transfer mode (PTM), described in Appendix E.11

SHDSL supersedes the older HDSL symmetric DSL technology defined in ITU-T G.991.1.

In Europe, a variant of SHDSL was standardized by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) using the name 'SDSL'. This ETSI variant is compatible with the ITU-T SHDSL standardized regional variant for Europe and must not be confused with the usage of the term SDSL in North America to refer to symmetric digital subscriber line.