VDSL promises broadband for rural areas
News One such stumbling block stopping VDSL from fulfilling its perceived role, is that the cabinets will need to be connected to the exchanges by optical fibre cables, which can transmit the huge amounts of data that people will want to download at...
[March 28, 2001, 12:01]
ST and Telia show-off fruit of 60Mbit/s VDSL alliance
News In Geneva and Stockholm today, STMicroelectronics and Telia Research demonstrated the first VDSL (Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line) products to come out of their joint development project announced in June.
[November 2, 1999, 15:50]
Protecting the Robustness of ADSL and VDSL DMT Modems When Applying DSM
White Papers When transmitting data over an ADSL or VDSL link, performance is very important. Today's ADSL and VDSL modems are very robust. Both in ADSL and VDSL there exist reconfiguration protocols that take care of changing noise environments.
[February 13, 2005, 23:00]
Superfast DSL shows its pace
News The new technology, VDSL-DMT, also allows up to 28mbps uplink, and conforms to Plan 998 -- a standard for using radio frequencies over telephone cable. Aimed at in-building and densely populated urban applications, VDSL -- very high speed digital...
[March 11, 2002, 14:00]
EC cracks down on local-loop unbundling
News These local sub-loops are important where the competing operator wants to be situated close to its clients, and are already a practical requirement for operators seeking to develop certain broadband technologies, such as VDSL," explained the...
[March 21, 2002, 14:31]
BT works out its next broadband move
News Currently, the telco is looking at both VDSL and ADSL2+ technologies as potential upgrades for ADSL. Rejali said that of the two, VDSL seems a likely winner. I believe VDSL has a better footprint. I think the ultimate future is around VDSL.
[December 8, 2005, 16:30]
Understanding xDSL
White Papers Lower rate xDSL (up to 1.5 Mbit/s) is gaining popularity in the residential market, and is expected to become faster and cheaper (such as ADSL), while high performance xDSL (up to 52 Mbit/s) targets business and high-end users (such as VDSL).
[December 23, 2005, 0:01]
Telecommunication Services
White Papers Moreover, the beginning of new services such as Metro Ethernet, VDSL and others are expected to make competition even stronger. The market for domestic telecommunication services has been rapidly progressing toward integration of voice and data...
[January 11, 2006, 0:01]
DSL Variations
White Papers But what are the differences between DSL, SDSL, ADSL, RADSL, VDSL and so forth? Compared to the standard modem speed of 56 kilobits per second (Kbps), and the ISDN combined channel speed of 128 Kbps, it is obvious that DSL is the fastest and most...
[March 2, 2004, 11:20]
Broadcom acquires UK DSL firm
News After the deal is completed, Broadcom will establish a new DSL business unit, run by Element 14 chief executive Stan Boland, which will encompass Broadcom's VDSL and ADSL businesses, and all related telco local loop transmission activities.
[October 4, 2000, 15:06]
BT fixing fibre-optic broadband problem
News Ironically, faster broadband services such as VDSL rely on a fibre-optic connection from a BT local exchange to a streetside cabinet, but this kind of technology isn't yet being commercially deployed.
[April 11, 2003, 14:39]
Broadband campaigners: the job's not finished
News In order to compete with the likes of South Korea and Japan, we need government and industry to think about how we roll out faster services - it could be VDSL (very high speed-DSL) to the street cabinet, or WiMax in the 'last mile' to people's...
[November 10, 2005, 16:00]
Communications Bill clause could help extend broadband
News It could also make it easier for BT to offer faster broadband technologies such as VDSL, which needs a fibre-optic path from BT's street-side cabinets to the local exchange. The UK government has been congratulated for deciding to make it easier...
[November 25, 2002, 12:35]
UK still languishing down DSL league
Talkback Even though higher speed technology has been tested by BT as far back as at least 1999 (they boasted about having the most advanced facilty in the world for testing of this technology, VDSL) this is still yet to filter through to the consumer in...
[September 11, 2003, 9:12]
Ofcom: Copper can support high-speed broadband
News The report does not specify the technology required, only stating that it is theoretically possible to go faster than VDSL (very high-speed DSL). An Ofcom assessment has predicted that DSL over normal copper phone lines could take virtually the...
[August 21, 2008, 17:49]
Bandwidth talk turns off broadband late adopters
News VDSL -- a broadband technology that promises much faster speeds than ADSL -- requires fibre-optic cables to be laid from BT's street-side cabinets to the local exchange. The UK's telecoms industry must concentrate on promoting the value of...
[November 20, 2002, 16:21]
