World-First VDSL2 Demo Gets 500Mbps Data Transfers

pnorth writes "Ericsson has achieved data transfer rates of more than 500Mbps in what it said is the world's first live demonstration of a new VDSL2-based technology. The demonstration achieved data rates of more than 0.5 Gbps over twisted copper pairs using 'vectorized' VDSL2. Vectoring decouples the lines in a cable (from an interference point of view), substantially improving power management, and reduces noise originating from the other copper pairs in the same cable bundle."

Well thats great

[0racle]

Now I know what will be deployed around here 300 years from now. I can't wait.

Capped Connections

[sam0vi]

Too bad that when the day this technology is deployed monthly bandwidth caps will probably be the rule. It would be nice being able to run a proper server at home (can't afford T1,and adsl here in Spain have very restricted upload capacity), without worrying about hogging your bandwidth with pr0n and torrents. We'll see how this goes.

Re:Blu-ray in 10minutes

[Mister Whirly]

All hail 2022! And with these new DSl speeds, we will actually be able to stream in real time the new Duke Nukem Forever game, which will also have Real Time Ray Tracing! Huzzah!

Sweet!

[shadedream]

Now I can exceed my "realistic" 20gb cap in ~40 seconds...