said by Gilitar:What I never understood is why AT&T didn't take ADSL2 further. Customers with shorter links could have been offered faster speeds.
In 2005, AT&T, Bellsouth, and SBC were three distinctly separate entities. AT&T only offered dial-up access through, "AT&T Worldnet", SBC was mostly ADSL, with some insider hints of working on an ADSL2+ service. Only Bellsouth offered ADSL2 service on a regular basis.
Then SBC bought AT&T, re-branded itself as AT&T, and finally bought Bellsouth. I suspect the current IP-DSL ADSL2+ service is the SBC-rumored ADSL rollout. I also suspect that Bellsouth ADSL2 deployment stopped with the AT&T buyout; and any future deployment of ADSL in AT&T Southeast (nee "Bellsouth") will be the IP-DSL service.
It is my understanding that IP-DSL is served from RTs in other AT&T regions, so there is hope for AT&T Southeast.
P.S. I am not flaking out on the "pluses". ADSL2+ is an extension of ADSL2. I am reasonably certain, from past responses by NetFixer
, that Bellsouth was offering ADSL, while U-verse IP-DSL is either VDSL, or ADSL2+, depending on the nature of the deployed hardware; i.e., AT&T could upgrade the RT DSLAM in your photo to ADSL2+ IP-DSL capability. I am not an AT&T insider, so no clue if that will ever happen. But it isn't technically impossible.