DSL fibre
RSS DSL fibreOne in five of world's households now wired to the web
News DSL connections, on the other hand, will remain the major contributor to worldwide household broadband connections. Traditional DSL access is expected to drop a few percentage points to just under 60 per... [28 Sep 2009]
Virgin Media trials 200Mbps broadband
News Ian Fogg, principal analyst at Forrester Research, told silicon.com that while he doesn't believe Virgin will be offering a commercial 200Mbps service anytime soon the company is nevertheless firing "a shot across the bows" of... [08 May 2009]
Ericsson racks up 500Mbps speeds over copper
News The data-transfer rates were achieved using a version of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology called 'vectorised' VDSL2, Ericsson said in a statement. This demonstration confirms Ericsson's leadership in... [17 Mar 2009]
Quarter of broadband homes to ditch DSL for mobile
News According to industry watchers Analysys, around one quarter of broadband homes will be pulling the plug on fixed-line DSL and connecting over 3G - so-called mobile broadband - by 2013. Around half of DSL... [15 Oct 2008]
Inbox: Antique computing, Segway protest and ID cards
Comment The whole infrastructure needs upgrading.either that or I want to be able to plug my DSL modem/router directly into the local cabinet! The cost of building a full end-to-end fibre network across the UK... [11 Sep 2008]
Ofcom: Copper capable of high-speed broadband
News An Ofcom assessment has predicted that DSL over normal copper phone lines could take virtually the whole country to broadband speeds of 50Mbps or more, as long as optical fibre is laid to the street... [22 Aug 2008]
Fibre - coming to a home near you
News Yet as bandwidth needs eventually outgrow the DSL-based networks, service providers will need to start looking at deploying fibre to homes and office buildings. Despite rising interest in the high-speed... [10 Jul 2007]
Fibre notches up 10 per cent of fat pipes
News Across the globe, as in Europe, DSL remains the dominant tech with 66 per cent of broadband subscribers, followed by cable at 22 per cent. Point Topic found most new fat pipe connections are still made over... [28 Mar 2007]
Fibre to the home hits one million
News To date DSL players have been lukewarm on FTTH, citing its high cost. A separate report by broadband analysts Point Topic found the market for FTTx services worldwide grew almost twice as fast as DSL... [01 Mar 2007]
Broadband availability still hitting UK Plc
News And the push isn't about just flavours of DSL but also pressing for fibre connections. Kimber added: "By the time we wake up to fibre to the home, it will take five to 10 years to... [07 Feb 2007]
Broadband growth fastest in Eastern Europe
News But the market for FTTx - faster fibre-optic connections - grew almost twice as fast (12.6 per cent) as DSL, and topped more than 27 million subscribers during the period. DSL remains... [20 Dec 2006]
The A to Z of broadband
News Other types include SDSL (symmetrical DSL), HDSL (high data rate DSL), VDSL (very-high-bit-rate DSL), and even PDSL (powerline DSL). ADSL isn't the only type of... [01 Nov 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No more copper - fibre rules
Comment To be fair the guardians of the copper access network had seen their long-line brethren retire early or find new jobs as their numbers shrank by 90 per cent with the advance of fibre, and naturally enough, the promise of... [07 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The GDP threat
Comment The bad news is there has been around 20 years of investment in the wrong technologies (ie more copper cables and DSL) and any abrupt change of course now is really going to hurt! The good news is the necessary optical... [05 May 2006]
Motorola to grab Linux set-top box developer
News The Kreatel technology is complementary to Motorola's products that deliver home video via cable, DSL (digital subscriber line) and fibre-optic lines, said Motorola. Motorola plans to acquire Kreatel... [18 Jan 2006]
