The stumbling block to having more users on DSL is security. Instead, it connected an ATM DSL circuit to a Cisco router that sits in the data center at PeopleSoft headquarters. The DSL modem on the user side runs in bridge mode. On the router side, a Cisco Bridge-Group Virtual Interface is run with the ATM circuit. The result is that when users log on to the computer, it's as if they're on the corporate LAN at the office.
Every employee here is a telecommuter from the day they're hired.
They are used to plugging the laptop in anywhere globally, getting into our network and simply having it work. They have the same ability to do that from their house with a bridge network. While DSL is beginning to make sense in numerous instances, experts say users still have to carefully analyze the pros and cons of the technology. It still has a lot of the problems you get when you try to take an old piece of infrastructure and layer a new technology on it. There's no question that DSL is not for everyone.