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World-First VDSL2 Demo Gets 500Mbps Data Transfers
pnorth writes "Ericsson has achieved data transfer rates of more than 500Mbps in what it said is the world's first live demonstration of a new VDSL2-based technology. The demonstration achieved data rates of more than 0.5 Gbps over twisted copper pairs using 'vectorized' VDSL2. Vectoring decouples the lines in a cable (from an interference point of view), substantially improving power management, and reduces noise originating from the other copper pairs in the same cable bundle."
"Where the technology does have great applications is among Fibre-to-the-Building deployments in commercial areas.
"You might have fibre connected from the DSLAM to the basement of an office building," Goodwin said. "You can then run bonded VDSL2+ up into all the other floors.""
Apparently it's cheaper to roll out fibre to the home these days for new installs and the existing copper to the home is insufficient for last mile where there is fibre to the street (junction)...so looks like it's great for business use or specific regions which fit into some window of installation where they put in redundant copper to the home with fibre to the street.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Not so spread out. Examine a map of population distribution. Note all the white and yellow around the middle and all the blue along the coasts and readjust your math.
It's not as dense as Japan by any means, but upgrading infrastructure is plenty feasible, provided you can dislodge the incumbent interests.
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