Oct 27, 2010 6:52 AM (1 hour ago) US telco claims 100 Mbps on copper
Sweating copper, chasing fibre.
US telecommunications vendor Ikanos this week released NodeScale Vectoring which it claimed could deliver broadband speeds of 100 Mbps over existing copper digital subscriber line (DSL) networks.
"Ikanos' NodeScale Vectoring technology will deliver the performance of fibre at one-tenth the cost of fibre-to-the-home," said John Quigley, CEO and president at Ikanos.
The technology analysed interference between paired copper lines and created "compensation signals" that cancelled out noise, Ikanos explained.
ZTE Corporation was demonstrating its first NodeScale equipped DSLAM this week at the Broadband World Forum in Paris, France.
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) also trotted out its new "phantom" noise-cancelling DSL technology, which it claimed could deliver speeds 850 Mbps over 400 metres and 750 Mbps over 500 metres of "bonded copper".
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