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andrewduckerReading the Guardian's Online section this morning, and there was an article about VDSL.
Now, I've generally been under the impression that there's two choices:
1) ADSL - where they use higher frequencies on normal copper phone lines to transmit higher speed signals - works up to about 2Mbit.
2) Fiber-Optics - where they put a bit of glass/plastic into your house and you get more bandwidth than you can reasonably use.
The problem with the second one is that in order to roll it out they have to dig a new trench to your front door and this is damned expensive.
The article laid out the third option for me: lay fiber from the exchange to the green boxes which service each street (about 400 homes per box, I believe) and then, because the copper lengths are now much shorter, you can have 10 Mbit connections along them. Apparently this has already been rolled out in parts of Australia, and BT is running tests on it.
I have no idea what I'd do with a 10MBit internet connection to my house, but whatever it was, I'd be doing it very fast indeed.
Now, I've generally been under the impression that there's two choices:
1) ADSL - where they use higher frequencies on normal copper phone lines to transmit higher speed signals - works up to about 2Mbit.
2) Fiber-Optics - where they put a bit of glass/plastic into your house and you get more bandwidth than you can reasonably use.
The problem with the second one is that in order to roll it out they have to dig a new trench to your front door and this is damned expensive.
The article laid out the third option for me: lay fiber from the exchange to the green boxes which service each street (about 400 homes per box, I believe) and then, because the copper lengths are now much shorter, you can have 10 Mbit connections along them. Apparently this has already been rolled out in parts of Australia, and BT is running tests on it.
I have no idea what I'd do with a 10MBit internet connection to my house, but whatever it was, I'd be doing it very fast indeed.
