digital subscriber line access multiplexer
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Path taken by data to DSLAM
- Role
- Bandwidth versus distance
- Hardware details
- IP-DSLAM
- See also
- References
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A digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM, often pronounced DEE-slam) is a network switch often located in telephone exchanges, that multiplexes multiple downstream links from digital subscriber line (DSL) customers interfaces to an upstream interface. Its cable internet (DOCSIS) counterpart is the cable modem termination system.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “digital subscriber line access multiplexer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.