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200mbps DSL On Its Way?

Posted by timothy on from the on-speed-is-the-new-on-steroids dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I came upon a news story about Texas Instruments developing a new DSL technology which will allow ISP's to boost their bandwidth to 200mbps (Yes, mega bits per second). The UDSL service, as it is dubbed, is backwards compatible with current DSL technologies such as VDSL and ADSL. This should get many cable internet users, like myself, a second look at DSL." Update: 06/15 01:26 GMT by T : "mps" and "mbs" both de-mangled.

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  1. Problems with this by DarkHelmet · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I can imagine hordes of "geek apartment buildings" sprouting up next to central offices.

    They never mention what kind of distance you have to be from a node in order for this to work. I imagine all these "geek apartment buildings" are next to the C/O ;)

    Also, will the telecos even have the bandwidth from the node, onward to really sustain that kind of bandwidth? I mean, we're looking at OC-3 speeds, right? I can imagine their pip getting saturated.

    Finally, what good is this if ISP's shut down anyone who use "too much bandwidth" anyway? We're already at that scenario with 1.5 meg/sec constantly. What about 200? Egh.

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    1. Re:Problems with this by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 5, Insightful

      will the telecos even have the bandwidth

      This was my immediate thought. Sure, it's a great concept, but there's no practical application for home use. You might see this in very large business or site-to-site communication - both in place of OC-3 lines.

      Don't expect 200Mbps for general home use any time soon. The costs to provide that much bandwidth, even ridiculously oversold, are too high.

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  2. I think.... by Digitus1337 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That we've all learned the disappointing lesson that lab results don't tend to display the same capacity in the real world.

  3. isp's by flacco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and your isp will still cap your drooling consumer connection at 256k upstream.

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  4. Re:Go Little Bells! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... and they'll still complain bitterly if you actually act as if you have some right to use that capacity.

  5. Spam spam SPAM! by mcrbids · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I remember reading not too long ago that 80% of SPAM is relayed through virus-laden open relays.

    Can you imagine the amount of SPAM a 24x7 200 Mb connection can generate? /Shudders

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  6. Re:That’s assuming... by bizitch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You forget what the "killer app" for this is...

    HDTV

    The telcos are sick of getting there asses kicked by Cable in the broadband/tv/telco arena.

    Right now they are trying to have a go at it with bundleing DSL with DirectTV - but that aint flying so well.

    If they can pump out bits this fast it would make them quite a formidible player in the "Convergence" field.

    They've already cranked their infrastucture everywhere with DSL repeaters to get around the CO distance issue - Rolling this out shouldn't be a big deal.

    Amazing to contemplate it though - 200mps Internet, Telco, HDTV - all on a single pair of CAT3 - wow!

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