That suggests that it's an ASL (Analog Subscriber Line)... Pete Templin Senior Staff Engineer TexLink Communications (210) 892-4183 pete.templin@texlink.com -----Original Message----- From: Bradley Dunn [mailto:bradley@dunn.org] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 4:05 PM To: Christopher X. Candreva; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue Christopher X. Candreva wrote:

I've seen this in the press repeatedly and it drives me almost as nuts as having to call DSL access hardware a modem.

What's wrong with calling it a modem? It MOdulates and DEModulates between a digital bitstream and an analog signal. Bradley