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World-First VDSL2 Demo Gets 500Mbps Data Transfers

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @02:22AM from the right-quick dept.

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."

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Re:Don't hold your breath in the US... by pleappleappleap · 2009-03-17 03:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

Oy.
You gotta compare similar statistics. You're comparing one measure of urban population with a completely different measure of urban population. It's worse than comparing apples to oranges. More like comparing apples to lumber.