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Bell Labs Fighting To Get More Bandwidth Out of Copper

jfruh writes You might think that DSL lost the race to cable and fiber Internet years ago, but Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs is working on a host of projects to extract more and faster bandwidth out of existing technologies. The company's G.fast technology aims to get hundreds of megabits a second over telephone lines. Other projects are aiming to boost speeds over fiber and cell networks as well.

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  1. Of Course by kaiser423 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course they are, what else would they be doing, just letting the world pass them by?

    On the flip side, it isn't like we've seen massive DSL advancements recently (At least ones that have made it to consumers).