scope:

The present document specifies requirements for transceivers providing very high bit-rate digital transmission on metallic, unshielded, access network wire pairs. The technology is referred to as Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL).

The present document is part 1 of the specification for VDSL and is applicable to metallic access transmission systems designed to provide multi-megabit/s digital access over part of the existing, unshielded, metallic access network. It is concerned with the key functional and electrical requirements for VDSL. It is linecode independent and is intended to set the boundary requirements which all compliant VDSL transceivers will be required to meet. Part 2 is concerned with requirements on linecode and duplexing method which will enable the requirements of part 1 to be met. Part 3 is a full interoperability specification for VDSL, designed to ensure that VDSL transceivers from different manufacturers can inter-operate.

The definition of physical interfaces is outside the scope of this specification. However, if an appropriate interface for a specific application is found, it may be included in order to better describe the mapping functionality. The VDSL transmission system, in its most basic form, consists of an application independent core and an application specific block.

The core is purely a transparent STM bit-pump or ATM cell-pump which transports information from one end of the metallic access link to the other. The digital data is mapped into a core frame which is defined logically and not physically. The core frame is therefore considered to be the interface between the application specific and the application independent part of the VDSL system. The application specific part may be subdivided into (at least) two smaller parts: mapping and interface.