Alcatel-Lucent Boosts Copper Broadband To 100Mbps

Mark.JUK writes "Telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent has today become the first-to-market with VDSL2 Vectoring technology which, it claims, will push the top broadband internet access speeds of existing copper telephone lines over 100Mbps and without needing to bond multiple lines together. Vectoring is essentially a 'noise cancellation' method (similar, in principal, to the technology found in some headphones) that works to cancel out background noise / interference (i.e. crosstalk) and can thus boost performance and reach (coverage) by between 25% and 100%."

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Re:What about latency?

[Bruce Perens]

Those gamers really notice the velocity factor, do they?

The problem isn't copper, it's bufferbloat.