EMC

Written on 6:46 AM by ooe

DSL transmission systems are required to operate on access wire-pairs that exist in a harsh physical and electromagnetic environment. As they cannot be screened and are often hung from poles, they have the capacity to act as very inefficient unintentional antennae. This means that they can pick up radio broadcast signals that may become sources of interference to DSL systems, and, equally, there is the potential for DSL signals to leak out of the cables and cause interference to radio systems. Obviously it is vital that both of these possibilities are understood and their impact carefully controlled.