Telecom Italia launched an action plan for the desaturation of the ATM switches which provide 7 Mbit/s asymmetrical bitstream services. This plan, published in December 2010, provides a total of 1,882 interventions for DSLAM expansion. The planned interventions aim at keeping the number of saturated switches served with 7 Mbit/s ATM DSLAM at year end under 100 units…