Alcatel-Lucent Boosts Broadband Over Copper To 300Mbps

alphadogg writes "Alcatel-Lucent has come up with a way to move data at 300Mbps over copper lines. So far the results have only been reproduced in a lab environment — real products and services won't be available for at least a year. From the article: 'Researchers at the company's Bell Labs demonstrated the 300Mbps technology over a distance of 400 meters using VDSL2 (Very high bitrate Digital Subscriber Line), according to Stefaan Vanhastel, director of product marketing at Alcatel-Lucent Wireline Networks. The test showed that it can also do 100Mbps over a distance of 1,000 meters, he said. Currently, copper is the most common broadband medium. About 65 percent of subscribers have a broadband connection that's based on DSL, compared to 20 percent for cable and 12 percent for fiber, according to market research company Point Topic. Today, the average advertised DSL speeds for residential users vary between 9.2 Mbps and 1.9Mbps in various parts of the world, Point Topic said.'"

Comments

Re:Great news but...

[AHuxley]

I live in Australia, picture a small group of shared walled dwellings down a common concrete driveway.
My copper phoneline is crushed. I get adsl 2+ and voice from wires via my neighbours phoneline.
The idea that "suburbia" is packed with pure copper ethernet goodness vs corroding/crushed ducts and pits is hopeful. What telco would want repair data would have to be opened up .
Best just to stall roll outs by competitors and wait for that magic internal roll out cost number to go down over a few more years.
What would the cost be of fixing/testing old copper and then having to share it with other isp's at a 'fed' watched wholesale rate?
Let it rot and roll out your own closed next gen solution.