Technician Dr. DSL: ADSL2 Modem Diagnostics Software for Field Testing
White Papers While much of the focus on ADSL2 and ADSL2+ has been on their extended reach and increased data rates, these standards include impressive physical layer diagnostics designed to qualify customers for new services, troubleshoot failures and monitor...
[February 25, 2005, 2:00]
Bonded ADSL2+: New Standards for Multi-Line Services
White Papers Loop bonding technology provides the telecom industry with a revolutionary technique for combining multiple ADSL2+ connections together into a single, aggregated connection, even if they have different capacities.
[August 8, 2007, 2:09]
Critics hit out at BT's ADSL2+ delays
News BT has been criticised by customers and the telecoms industry after it revealed that it won't start delivering superfast broadband, known as ADSL2+, until next year. ADSL2+ will give users download speeds of up to 24Mbps.
[November 15, 2006, 10:37]
ADSL2 and ADSL2+: G.992.3/G.992.5 AR7 Standards-Based Capabilities
White Papers Texas Instruments' AR7 DSL modem supports the new, higher-data rate ADSL2 and ADSL2+ standards. By doubling the bandwidth, ADSL2+ allows higher rates (up to 24 Mbps in the downstream direction) over short- to mid-range loops.
[February 25, 2005, 2:00]
ADSL2 and ADSL2+: The New ADSL Standards
White Papers As the number of users of ADSL chipsets based on first-generation ADSL standards surpasses 25 million, the ITU has completed and approved the newest revision of international ADSL standards. The new standards are referred to as "G.dmt.bis" and
[November 9, 2009, 5:29]
Low-Power Modes for ADSL2 and ADSL2+
White Papers This paper gives a description of low-power modes for ADSL2 and ADSL2+. These include the power management states known as L2 and L3 and the power cutback feature. The ways in which these states can be used are explained, and their various...
[February 25, 2005, 2:00]
Bulldog: We'll win 24Mbps broadband race
News Bulldog claims it is doing a better job than its competitors at bringing the high speed broadband service ADSL2+ to market. The Cable & Wireless subisidiary announced on Wednesday that it is extending its ADSL2+ trials to Manchester and Liverpool...
[February 3, 2006, 15:10]
London to get 24Mbps broadband
News Londoners could soon see broadband speeds triple to 24Mbps, thanks to a recently launched company that has promised to deliver ADSL2+ Internet services. Be, a new Internet service provider, said the service will dwarf current top speeds of 8Mbps...
[July 4, 2005, 9:40]
24Mbps broadband is here
News Two of BT's rivals are threatening to steal its thunder in the high-speed broadband market by embracing ADSL2+, a cutting-edge technology that is much faster than standard ADSL broadband. Be Unlimited started a pilot this week for ADSL2+ that will...
[September 1, 2005, 13:40]
NTL trials 18Mbps broadband
News Broadband speeds could soon reach new heights as cable operator NTL pilots ADSL2+ - a technology that offers a maximum download speeds of 18Mbps. Such rates are only possible over short distances, but NTL says that 95 percent of homes are within...
[March 16, 2005, 12:20]
UK gets nationwide 22Mbps broadband
News UK Online has become the first ISP in the UK to offer ADSL2+ nationally, promising speeds of up to 22Mbps. The service will be available for £29.99 per month in most urban areas, UK Online said, although customers will need to buy an ADSL2...
[November 9, 2005, 13:25]
BT delays hinder superfast broadband rollout
News BT will not offer the next generation of faster fixed-line broadband services until summer next year at the earliest, with some people having to wait until 2011. The telco announced on Monday that this superfast broadband, known as ADSL2+, would be...
[November 13, 2006, 15:45]
Be pushes upstream broadband past 2Mbps
News UK telecoms operator Be has begun trialling an ADSL service that lets users upload information faster than ever before . Be announced on Tuesday that it has been trialling the service, based on the ITU ADSL Annex M enhancement, since late last year...
[March 15, 2006, 16:15]
Strategic Towns with 100Mbps Broadband
Talkback @SeanTheMac, It would be great if people could vote with their feet but BT have already put paid to that with a revolving 18 month contract. The idea that if you currently get 2Mbps , you'll get 4Mbps is taking a very small sample that live very...
[June 12, 2009, 19:15]
NTL to raise broadband speeds to 10Mbps
News In a bid to regain the broadband-speed crown, NTL plans to start upgrading its cable customers to 10Mbps connections before the end of the year. The move will be free to all NTL broadband users, the company said on Monday.
[August 8, 2005, 16:50]
Be rapped over broadband speed claims
News Be, the first ISP to launch the next generation of broadband services in the UK, has been hauled up by the Advertising Standards Authority for misleading advertising. Be claimed in newspaper advertisements that it offered 24Mbps broadband services...
[January 25, 2007, 11:47]
Carphone Warehouse to boost broadband business
News Mobile-phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 percent of its retail business to US retail giant Best Buy for £1.1bn, and plans to use the cash to grow its broadband business. Carphone Warehouse, which operates the broadband brand TalkTalk...
[May 12, 2008, 9:28]
BT works out its next broadband move
News While other ISPs are falling over themselves to offer higher speeds to customers, BT is taking a softly-softly approach to rolling out faster broadband. According to Cameron Rejali, BT Wholesale's MD of products and strategy, the telco can't match...
[December 8, 2005, 16:30]
'upto' 20Mbps v 'upto' 8Mbps
Talkback Regarding the upto 20Mbps ‘hype’- I believe its possible that you could receive an overall better/faster broadband connection from an ‘upto’ 8Mbps ISP, than an ‘upto’ 20Mbps as its far more dependant on how each ISP manage their network.
[June 10, 2009, 22:18]
BT: 21CN rollout timescale was squeezed
News BT's delayed £10bn network upgrade should have taken a full decade to install, according to one of the telco's top executives. Instead BT decided to try to complete the upgrade in just five years, due to the cost pressures of running its complex...
[November 22, 2006, 10:51]



