Sorry,
Thought it was the TLAs and MLAs you wanted expanded. DSL can be either Symmetrical or not. Asymmetric means slow in one direction. DSL runs on LDDS circuits. It's just a fancy pants term that describes a pair of wires that have specific characteristics, one of which is length. Hence the L in LDDS.
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