It's the "everything else" sites on the wide area network -- telecommuters, remote branches and mobile services -- that tend to trip up network managers, Network World columnist Johna Till Johnson says
Major DSL equipment vendors and service providers, including Cisco Systems, 3Com, Quest and SBC, have joined forces to launch the OpenDSL initiative. The goal of the initiative is to drive the development of a standard software specification for DSL that would facilitate equipment interoperability and simplify the process of CPE (customer premise equipment) configuration.