Indirect digital subscriber line (DSL) service generally involves
connecting conversion equipment that converts between DSL service
delivered to a customer premises and DSL service that connects back to a
data network. Indirect DSL service may be delivered on the same loop to
the customer premises that also carries a native 0-4 KHz POTS interface.
For larger deployments, the conversion equipment may include inverse
multiplexing to combine multiple links back to the data network to
support DSL service. Furthermore, the conversion equipment may include
functions to digitize the POTS service. Aggregating DSL data from
multiple customers and/or digitizing POTS service that may be multiplexed
with the DSL data allows for significant pair gain opportunities.