World-First VDSL2 Demo Gets 500Mbps Data Transfers 110
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 (Score:5, Funny)
Never see it in the US (Score:1)
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>>>Too bad the US will never see it.
You're probably right. In many urban areas across the U.S., they are skipping DSL entirely and going directly to FiOS (fiber optics). Also, the U.S. is no more "behind" than the European Union. Overall they both average around 6-7 Megabit/s. In fact many U.S. states are faster than EU states:
1 - Sweden (11 Mbit/s)
2 - Delaware (10)
3 - Washington (9)
4 - Netherlands,RI,NJ,MA (8)
5 - VA,NY,CO,CT,AZ,Germany (7)
If you live in Delaware, Washington, New Jersey, Massa
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Top continents (rounded to the nearest whole integer):
1 Europe and N America - 6 Mbit/s
3 Australasia - 5 Mbit/s
4 Asia - 4 Mbit/s
5 S America - 2 Mbit/s
6 Africa - 1 Mbit/s
Australia by itself is 5 Mbit/s so comparable to France or the UK.
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P.S.
>>>Too bad the US will never see it
I still think DSL is the answer to getting highspeed internet to isolated locations like Wyoming or Idaho or Montana. The copper lines are already underground or in the walls of the farmhouses. All the telephone company needs do is install the DSLAM for any customer that requests an upgrade (as mandated by a new law). Even if the wires are relatively poor condition, they should be able to handle 1000 kbit/s speeds, which is far superior to current dialup ma
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And to all you EuroTrash: you are welcome you are not speaking German now. (Well, except Germany).
Anybody notice these kind of "historians" usually lack any real understanding of history? I notice they often do not understand Nationalism or Patriotism if not equate the two! Besides being the center of the world, they think the USA did all the fighting in WW2.
Aside from the fact that hardly anybody posting online was involved in WW2 and can't legitimately take credit for a previous generations' efforts helping another previous generation.
Naturally, the USA would have been able to take on Nazi Russia (or
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>>>can't legitimately take credit for a previous generations' efforts
Yes we can. We're still paying off the accumulated debt from World War 2 and the Cold War. Our parents and grandparents borrowed the money, and the children are left with the gigantic debt. Yay.
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>>>can't legitimately take credit for a previous generations' efforts
Yes we can. We're still paying off the accumulated debt from World War 2 and the Cold War. Our parents and grandparents borrowed the money, and the children are left with the gigantic debt. Yay.
You should visit www.iousathemovie.com [iousathemovie.com]then you'll understand you haven't got a clue where your debt really comes from...
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Yes I do. I've seen U.S. Comptroller General David Walker on Glenn Beck, and it's quite scary. Our nation owes $110,000 per home. It will be $130,000 by the next presidential election. We are deep, deep "in hock" to the Chinese and other foreign nationals.
We need to learn to live with less and stop borrowing.
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What involvement would that be? The last few years? That is very little involvement in ending the war.
America sent 16 million troops to Europe and the Pacific. That compares to 3.5 million from the United Kingdom, and about a million from France.
America was only involved the last few years, because America ended the war.
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Signed,
Countries destroyed by the USA
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I AM speaking German. And I like it. You insensitive clod.
Also, your country nearly voted to speak German too, back it the very old days. ^^
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Oh, and in civilized countries, the population can actually speak more than one language. And I don't mean C/C++!
Yay! (Score:1)
That should improve their mobile phone business a lot!!!
What?? a cable trailing behing me you say?? I have no idea what you mean!
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Don't count on it. There won't be enough cable to trail...
The operating distances are too short to matter for most of the US (geographically speaking), and drop non-linearly to less than 10% of max performance when the distance is doubled.
They should ditch this crap, and give people the fiber that we already paid for. Tarring and Feathering for CEOs of US telecom companies that even think FTTN.
Most informative quote from TFA (Score:4, Informative)
"Where the technology does have great applications is among Fibre-to-the-Building deployments in commercial areas.
"You might have fibre connected from the DSLAM to the basement of an office building," Goodwin said. "You can then run bonded VDSL2+ up into all the other floors.""
Apparently it's cheaper to roll out fibre to the home these days for new installs and the existing copper to the home is insufficient for last mile where there is fibre to the street (junction)...so looks like it's great for business use or specific regions which fit into some window of installation where they put in redundant copper to the home with fibre to the street.
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Not only that, but you can use the existing cable more than likely already in the building.
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>>>Apparently it's cheaper to roll out fibre to the home these days for new installs and the existing copper to the home is insufficient for last mile where there is fibre to the street (junction)...so looks like it's great for business use or specific regions which fit into some window of installation where they put in redundant copper to the home with fibre to the street.
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I wish I understood what you just said.
This must be some kind of advanced grammar
that follows rules different from
You can use your existing cable! (Score:2)
And in the future after you've invested in this technology that approaches the limits of copper, you'll find that your neighboring building isn't finding any such limit because he did what you should have done: drag the damned fiber optic cable.
He'll save money too because he'll be working with commercial off the shelf equipment available at NewEgg. As his speeds go up to 100Gbps per strand you'll be standing there with your copper in your hand going "lol wut?"
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Wee bit limited (Score:5, Insightful)
FTA: "It showed aggregated rates of above 0.5Gbps at 500 metres, bonding six lines."
So if you happen to have six unused lines lying around and happen to be within half a kilometer of the fiber node and nothing else goes wrong you could get 500Mbps. Realistically you won't be that close to the node, you won't have that many spare lines, and for the sake of a "consistent user experience" (hi AT&T!) you'll get the same craptastic service that someone at least 1km out with at most two pairs would get.
But some PHB will decide to deploy it because his spreadsheet says that FTTH is too expensive, even if it is a one-time expense, and marketing swears that most people can't tell that their upstream is slow and their HDTV channels have been recompressed into mush. The only people who would notice are the ones who'd buy high-end service tiers if they didn't suck...
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In Belgium, VDSL2 connections are always hooked up to the closest street cabinet, which is usually less than 500m away. At that point, your connection moves on to fiber to the first node (usually 1 o 2 per small town). ;-)
Bonding six lines is a bit tricky though, as most houses have only 2 pairs connected. Though I wouldn't mind getting those 2 bonded ofcourse
FTTH is not just expensive, it's impractical, since it means opening up not just the streets, but entry points into each house (or worse, appartment b
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I built a suburban house in VA in 1996, and in MA in 2000. Both times I asked Verizon to run a new 5- or 10-pair cable (roommates, faxes, spares, all that stuff we no longer need), and both times they were happy to oblige. Sounds like that's an unusual experience?
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I'm afraid a company full of PHBs beat you to the punch [att.com]. Pity, too; they've monopolized my area.
And the point? (Score:5, Insightful)
It will just be throttled.
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*snorts* (Score:2)
People keep complaining about the US...
But frankly, the Japanese show us how fast and cheap it can be. And what do we have? 25MBit downlink is considered the best you can get without selling your first-born here in Switzerland.
It's nice that humankind as such is able to transmit data like that, but unless the populace gets to enjoy that technology at a reasonable price, I don't quite see a point in getting excited.
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Not to mention how many of our ISPs block inbound connections including ssh and http(s). They may build it, but we won't need it when it arrives.
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Not to mention how many of our ISPs block inbound connections including ssh and http(s). They may build it, but we won't need it when it arrives.
Is that a problem in Europe? I've run a SSH server for over a year now along with a simple website for my IP address. I've never heard any complaints, any e-mails, etc. The most I would expect is for them to tell me to upgrade to a business account if I want to run services like that.
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Not to mention how many of our ISPs block inbound connections including ssh and http(s).
Only on the cheapest residential tiers. Once you upgrade to "business class" service, these blocks disappear.
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Not true. At least where I live, every single ISP has network-wide blocks on FTP, SMTP, SSH, POP and WEB. Even the business cable at our office is crippled, so we use non-standard port numbers for remote access.
It's friggin' weak sauce, but that's what happens when you let a telecom get too big.
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Not true. At least where I live, every single ISP has network-wide blocks on FTP, SMTP, SSH, POP and WEB.
So no-one in your country can receive email or host your own web server? Not even large companies and government departments?
I call bulldust.
Yawn (Score:3, Interesting)
It's blazing fast for dsl, but it's still dsl. You might find a way to make a snail slide along at 3 mph. That'd really shake up the racing-snail community, but don't think you'll be entering that snail into a horse race any time soon.
All fun aside, I suppose this is useful to a lot of people, and a great tech achievement. I'm just pretty confident that by the time it's consumer-ready, there will be much faster alternatives in place.
What is the role DLS today in the broadband world? Is it merely a bandaid for places with no other options, or something more that I am missing?
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Around here, cable internet is absolute crap due to all the students sucking the bandwidth dry. I don't care what they claim to provide speed wise, it was always slow. The connection would also just disappear for over an hour at a time most nights around 10PM. DSL doesn't provide the theoretical rates of cable, but what it does provide is a fixed rate and the phone company, as much as they suck, sucks a lot less than the cable company when it comes to reliability.
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What is the role DLS today in the broadband world? Is it merely a bandaid for places with no other options, or something more that I am missing?
Around here, cable internet is absolute crap due to all the students sucking the bandwidth dry. I don't care what they claim to provide speed wise, it was always slow. The connection would also just disappear for over an hour at a time most nights around 10PM. DSL doesn't provide the theoretical rates of cable, but what it does provide is a fixed rate and the phone company, as much as they suck, sucks a lot less than the cable company when it comes to reliability.
You make a good point. I use DSL as well and I generally don't have the problems with unpredictable slowdowns or outright downtime that most of my friends with cable Internet are experiencing. True, they do have higher maximum throughput but I'm satisfied with the speeds I experience and especially with the consistency. Additionally my ISP does not block any ports and does not cap or throttle my connection, which is also nice. I know people often dislike DSL but really, the benefits of a dedicated conne
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True that. I'm a network engineer and during the course of troubleshooting, I'd start pinging something and forget about it. 40,000 pings later, I'd have dropped about 400 pings during my cable-modem days. I switched to Verizon FIOS and when I'd do the same thing, I'd have dropped ZERO packets.
Likewise, we're using a VOIP solution in our house and when I was doing the cable-modem thing, for some reason, my ATA would lock up and I'd have to power cycle it at least once per week. When I switched to FIOS, the
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Yeah! The rascally evil students are wasting all the bandwidth on things like youtube, games, iTunes and Netflix movie downloads, etc. Perfectly illegitimate uses, the cable company should cut them off.
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DSL is for:
-People who don't care how fast their connection is so much as that the connection is up and running
-People who want a generally fast Internet connection that provides a reliable amount of bandwidth
-People who don't want, or can't afford, to put up with download caps
-People who are not serviced by a cable company (rural farmers, people who don't live in a big city, etc...)
-People who want a static IP address without buying into a business package (depends on the DSL providers, of course)
-People w
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Spain must have really lousy phone lines. I get 53,000k every time (the maximum possible).
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Blu-ray in 10minutes (Score:1)
They're missing the tightly integrated monitoring/filtering scheme that will have to exist before the MAFIAA lets deployment occur.
Re:Blu-ray in 10minutes (Score:4, Interesting)
Well lets go back in time to get a perspective.
We are talking about Average Home use not corporate high end use.
1992 9600bps 3 megs an hour
1994 14.4k became the norm. 6 Megs and hour.
1996 28.8k became the norm. 10 megs an hour (after 14.4k we rarely ever got full speed connection over the modem)
1998 56.6k became the norm. 13/14 megs and hour that much more flaky.
2000 Cable Modem/DSL started to enter the market. In my area peak speed was about 500kbs so about 225 Megs an hour
2002 1mbs
2004 2mbs
2006 4mbs
2008 8mbs
2009 we are at about 10mbs/15mbs (with paying extra for 15mbs)
So roughly we double in speed every 2 years. So I doubt we will see 500mbs for home use until...
2010 16mbs
2012 32mbs
2014 64mbs
2018 128mbs
2020 256mbs
2022 512mbs
2022 Wow. All my predictions are seeming to fall in 2022 lately, Real Time Ray Tracing, Dukenukem forever, Now home use at 500mbs. 2022 will be a cool year.
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2012 32mbs
2014 64mbs
2018 128mbs
2020 256mbs
2022 512mbs
2014 + 2 =
Answers on the back of an envelope, please.
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Dag Nabit, When counting evens I always skip 6. 2,4,8, not 2,4,6,8. It must be all that binary in college.
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...2014 64mbs...
Who wants to wait until 2014 to have speeds slower than what our Telecoms should have been providing by the year 2000?
As of these years: these speeds should have been available as others in the world were offering them; thanks to government intervention that is to break the Telcom Monopoly / Oligopoly practices:
2000: 100 Mbps / 100 Mbps ($55.00 per month)
2008: 1 Gbps / 1 Gbps (less than $55.00 per month)
if you did not already know this, you are not alone, now please tell everyone that you know about it so they will stop accepting the industry FUD and excuses on the issue.
This is even more insulting once you realize that the American companies have been taking BILLIONS
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Just to compare (not meant to make you guys depressed), in Belgium :
1997 : cable 10Mbps/768kbps (upstream limited to 128kbps) - ADSL 8Mbps/630kbps (limited to 1Mbps/256kbps)
2009 : cable 25Mbps/1Mbps - VDSL2 17Mbps/512kbps
Cable should move to EuroDocsis 3.0 by 2010, allowing for 200Mbps/30Mbps, but in reality they'll cap it, so they can gradually give customers more.
Where do you live? (Score:1)
"2009 we are at about 10mbs/15mbs (with paying extra for 15mbs)" wtf??
i'm on 100mbit/100mbit unmetered FTTH :)
Capped Connections (Score:2, Funny)
Improved distance from the DSLAM? (Score:3, Insightful)
A much greater distance from the DSLAM would be much more needed than the improved speeds. Many people in rural areas can't get anything and would be happy with 5 Mb down if they could just get it.
transporter_ii
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exactly the same here (Score:1)
Rural area, att/bell south. Lucky to get anything above 28.8 anymore, and they have no plans whatsoever to improve service that I have been able to determine from them. The last place we lived, which was way, WAY the heck more out in the sticks and up multiple dirt roads, was/is served by a smaller community telco and unfortunately for me but good for everyone else there, just when we were moving that little telco ran really decent thick underground copper to EVERY residence in their area that needed an upg
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Good idea, but most mobile internet Terms of Service specifically prohibit using it as a "replacement for a landline" (WTF?)
Some even throttle you back (for a month or so) if they've seen too much traffic on one tower for too long.
Sprint! (Score:2)
Good idea, but most mobile internet Terms of Service specifically prohibit using it as a "replacement for a landline" (WTF?)
Some even throttle you back (for a month or so) if they've seen too much traffic on one tower for too long.
So far in my experience, Sprint does not throttle, cap or limit.
They have something in their TOS about not using it to replace a landline, but I've had my Sprint card plugged into a Linksys WRT54G3G-ST for over a year on their $59.99/month unlimited business plan (the "business" part may be important, but you're a home business, right?) and I can report that it pretty much is unlimited, and they've never throttled it.
One time I glanced at the usage part of the bill and wrote in the commas to separate the th
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Sarcasm aside I understand that I live in a rural area and I won't have access to the most modern of conveniences. As matter of fact I never expect to have broadband or cell signal at my home unless AT&T sells my area to a smaller company or I move. I am however calling attention to the fact that many people consider speeds that are 1-2 generations ahead of what I have slow. Whil
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Doesn't solve the real problem (Score:2)
"Its speed is best over thye hundreds of metres," he said. "But beyond 1km you will find that ADSL2+ is actually faster."
Which means that it will do nothing for the people who complain about speed now, either being unable to get broadband or only get a slow link. Actually it will probably make things worse for them as the web designers in "connected" cities decide that they can have high-definition video on their web-site front pages. Many people have to wait five minutes to see the existing flash pages.
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From TFA
"Its speed is best over thye hundreds of metres," he said. "But beyond 1km you will find that ADSL2+ is actually faster."
Which means that it will do nothing for the people who complain about speed now, either being unable to get broadband or only get a slow link. Actually it will probably make things worse for them as the web designers in "connected" cities decide that they can have high-definition video on their web-site front pages. Many people have to wait five minutes to see the existing flash pages.
If the problem there is infrastructure, it makes me wonder whatever happened to WiMax? Isn't that supposed to address exactly the situation you describe?
One would almost get the impression that we dislike broadband which does not come from a government-regulated monopoly.
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Look at it less as government regulated monopolies, and more as monopoly regulated governments, and I promise that you'll start to see a pretty clear pattern with these things.
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No, we just like out TV better than our Internet.
Some of the frequency blocks that were bought, in order to deploy WiMax solutions, are currently occupied until the changeover to Digital Broadcasting actually happens.
Once that frequency ran
mediaDSLAM anyone?! (Score:2)
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The problem is that nobody can reach their website.
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...go all the way to FTTH...
LMAO, When they give us true high speed bandwidth / Internet at around $55.00 per month, I will give them a chance.
I am so sick of being behind the Japanese in potential for innovation due to sllllooooooowwwww high speed Internet speeds. They have had 100MB / 100MB since 2000 and are now rolling out 1 GB / 1 Gb for less than $55.00 per month.
How can they offer these speeds you ask?
Because they cut the crap, the government intervened and forced them to de-criminalize their telephone monopoly (as the
Bonding? Boring. (Score:5, Interesting)
VDSLv2 gives you 100mbps. Technically, they would only need 5 lines to reach 500mbps, but I imagine ther "500mbps" is actual throughput, thus the requirement of a 6th line to reach this figure. However, this is with bonding. They could have just as easily claimed 10gbps speeds, by bonding 20 lines. VDSL2 bridges are readily available and bonding isn't anything special. The summary, the article, and the whole press release is just bull.
As for if this is good idea or not, it depends on the distance. This only makes sense for distances between 100m and 300m. Otherwise, there are better options. If your distance is shorter, run Ethernet. If your distance is longer, you're either going to lose performance or consider running fiber.
Great for everyone that is 1,500ft from a CO. (Score:1)
Sweet! (Score:2, Funny)
Fraud! (Score:2)
Memo: (Score:2, Insightful)
To: VP of Operations, MegaTelco
CC: VP of Research and Development, MegaTelco
Gentlemen,
Congratulations to the R&D boys who have come up with this wonderful new technology.
Now, please make certain that this is kept under wraps for as long as possible so that we can squeeze as much money as possible out of our current customers who are paying for "special" data circuits. We'd like to continue to keep them bent over and taking it deep for as long as possible. We don't wa
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I just have to ask (Score:2)
Re:Don't hold your breath in the US... (Score:4, Informative)
Not so spread out. Examine a map of population distribution [wikipedia.org]. Note all the white and yellow around the middle and all the blue along the coasts and readjust your math.
It's not as dense as Japan by any means, but upgrading infrastructure is plenty feasible, provided you can dislodge the incumbent interests.
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Oh please, I live in Sweden. We have a population of a few million spread over a country that ranges from north of the arctic circle all the way down to Denmark and our connections are decent. Heck, my uncle lives in a tiny town with maybe 10.000 people in it, far enough north that some days during the winter the sun will never rise, and yet he has fiber running into his living room.
Population density is the most rubbish excuse I've heard for why US internet is crap. Reality is that your ISPs are ripping yo
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Allow me to introduce you to the contiguous states of Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Just those three states combined are larger than Sweden with a dramatically lower population density.
I live in Kansas. Population density in the US *is* a problem for broadband. Most Europeans I know had trouble grasping the midwest until they actually came here.
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Oy.
You gotta compare similar statistics. You're comparing one measure of urban population with a completely different measure of urban population. It's worse than comparing apples to oranges. More like comparing apples to lumber.