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150 Mbit/s DSL.

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'd-settle-for-150Kbit/s dept.

surstrmming writes "German company Infineon have released their new QAM VDSL Plus chips, providing 150 Mbit/s data rates over ordinary copper wire." Note that that kinda throughput is at the 1000 feet mark... but the chip can still serve up 4mbps even at 13,000 feet.

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  1. Typeical Cable Runs + Fibre by Richard+Dale · · Score: 5, Interesting

    These speeds aren't that impressive when considering the normal density of telephone exchanges and typical copper cable runs. It seems that the DSL bandwidth over 2 copper wires has reached the point of not being able to significantly increase the capacity at anything approaching Moore's law. When will we have carriers that value the importance of running fibre to the home and developing high capacity switches to cater for this level of bandwidth? Here in Australia, there is serious consideration for the Natural Gas utilities to provide fibre-in-the-gas-pipe-infrastructure.

  2. Old technology by bigjnsa500 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why use this old technology when they can invest in newer technology like fiber to the house and/or Internet2 connectivity?

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  3. As if it will matter... by Nicholas+Schumacher · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Who cares if it can do 150 Mbit?

    Nobody is going to run that kind of pipe out to the CO.

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  4. Useful top end? by peatbakke · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, it's great that it can pull down 150Mb/s ... but you've gotta have an empty OC3 to feed it. And if you've got an OC3, might as well kick out the extra cash to run in the extra 300 meters.

    The 4km @ 4Mb/s is pretty nice, though.

  5. Fuggetaboutit by TerryAtWork · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's all going to be swept away by Digital Spread Spectrum.

    The Net will be in the air, encrypted, ubiquitous, undetectable, unstoppable and free.

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