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1 PerryLorier 1 [Acronym] for __D__igital __S__ubscriber __L__ine __A__ccess __M__ultiplexer.
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2 MattBrown 3 A piece of equipment housed at the exchange (or increasingly commonly in a roadside cabinet) that decodes the DSL signals and converts them to some other protocol. Roughly the Telco version of a DSL modem. Typically deals with 10s, 100s or 1000s of customers at once.
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5 Usually converts [PPPoA] over DSL to [PPPoA] over SDH, or from [PPPoE] over DSL to [PPPoE] over Ethernet.