This ETR describes a transmission technique called Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL). The requirements for the ADSL transmission sys tem and the transmission performance are defined in this report. ADSL allows the provision of a variety of digital channels on the same, single subscriber line as the analogue telephone service. An ADSL sy stem contains several digital channels. Some of them are full duplex l ow-speed channels and the others are simplex high-speed channels. The high-speed channels are transported only in the direction to the custo mer premises. This ETR is based on ANSI T1.413 [1] provided by the ANSI committee T1 E1.4 and contains only specific European topics not covered by ANSI T1