A seemingly insatiable demand for streaming and data is putting more strain on broadband suppliers than ever before. It is not inconceivable for a modern home to require speeds of 50Mbps in order to fully experience the range of simultaneous HD video and data streaming on multiple devices such as smart TVs, Blu-ray players, gaming consoles, tablets, smartphones, etc.
Meanwhile, advances in such fields as home health, premises monitoring, remote education and 4K Ultra HD TV could easily see a household needing 100Mbps in the not too distant future.
For telcos, getting past the magic 25-40 Mbps speed barrier has been expensive and difficult. Heavy reliance on copper networks has meant going down the costly route of building all new fiber networks.
Cablecos and their suppliers of DOCSIS are already providing these speeds. They are confidently offering speeds of up to 100 Mbps over original networks simply by making network gear changes in distribution offices and by installing new modems in homes.
‘The Fight for Consumer Broadband Supremacy: How Telcos Are Getting Their Broadband Mojo Back’ analyzes trends affecting the battle to gain lucrative broadband subscriptions. The 57-page report argues that the ‘miracles’ occurring in twisted pair copper wire technology are tipping the balance of power in favor of telephone companies.
VDSL2 Vectoring
The report is structured around the following sections:
OVERVIEW
TELCO’S BROADBAND TECHNOLOGIES
WHAT TELCOS ARE DOING
CABLECOS’ DOCSIS BROADBAND TECHNOLOGIES
WHAT CABLECOS ARE DOING
A SOFTWARE SOLUTION
VECTORING
FTTdp
DSL RINGS
NEW GEAR FOR THE HOME
G.FAST
FIBER
Inside, the ‘The Fight for Consumer Broadband Supremacy: How Telcos Are Getting Their Broadband Mojo Back’ report:
1) Uses plain language to describe these latest broadband technologies and explains their significance for the rest of the digital media industry.2) Details recent implementations at such companies as AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon, BT, Belgacom, KPN, etc.
3) Provides a complete explanation of the ‘miracle of VDSL2 Vectoring’, its importance to telcos and the products and alliances that are being offered by chip makers, broadband, vendors, STB manufacturers and software developers (such as Alcatel-Lucent, Broadcom, ASSIA, Lantiq, ZTE and MediaTek).
4) Shows how home networks and digital media devices like STBs and modems are being adapted to conform to new exterior broadband standards.
Who should read this report? Telephone companies, cable
companies, broadband suppliers, equipment and software vendors to these
companies, pay TV operators, IPTV companies, TV and device manufacturers,
makers of set-top boxes, chipset makers and the infrastructure that delivers
video to the home, financial analysts and industry consultants and observers.
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Methodology
The report from recent
issues of “The Online Reporter”. Most are based on interviews with management
at the companies that are involved in the development of the new technologies:
VDSL2 Vectoring, DSM, FTTdp and DSL Rings. Subsequent reports on the matter
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
OVERVIEW
How Much Broadband Speed Do Homes Need?
Telcos’ Broadband Technologies
OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES
- Current Broadband Technology Overview
Cablecos: DOCSIS 3.0
Telcos
FTTH
G.Fast
Binders Are the Telcos’ Broadband Problem
Telcos Have More Affordable Choices Than All-Fiber
Networks
Actelis Doubles DSL Speeds in Rural Areas
OTT’s Deep, Dark Secret: It Needs Lots of Bandwidth
WHAT THE TELCOS ARE DOING
CenturyLink Bulking up Network
AT&T Commits to Expand & Upgrade Wireline
Broadband Network
Verizon Won’t Build New FiOS After 2014
Vectored DSL (Not Fiber) Is Sweeping Europe
BT Doubles Broadband Speeds at Same Monthly Cost
UK Doles out £114m ($185m) to Cities to Build Broadband
Networks
CABLECOS’ DOCSIS BROADBAND TECHNOLOGIES
DOCSIS 3.0 Reigns Supreme in Broadband
Intel Shows 1 Gbps DOCSIS 3.0 Chips
DOCSIS Revs up to Almost 1 Gbps
Cablecos Developing Next-Generation 3.1 Version of DOCSIS
Cablecos Not Waiting for Telcos to Catch up
WHAT THE CABLECOS ARE DOING
Cablecos Increasing Broadband Subs, Losing Pay TV Subs
Time Warner Cable Increasing Broadband Speeds by up to 50%
Charter Upgrading Infrastructure to Offer Faster
Broadband & IPTV
Virgin Media Uses Superfast Broadbandand TiVo to Add
Subscribers
A Software Solution
ASSIA Software Makes xDSL Operate More Efficiently
Lantiq & ASSIA Partner to Push the VDSL2 Envelope
VECTORING
VDSL2 Vectoring Enables 100+ Mbps Over Telcos’ Copper
Wires
Alcatel-Lucent Technology Makes Deploying VDSL2 Vectoring
Less Expensive
Alca-Lu Takes the Lead in Vectoring
First G.Vector Plugfest
ADTRAN’s Vectoring Offers Speeds up to 200 Mbps...
Not Lantiq’s FTTdp
ZTE’s VDSL2 Vectoring Gear Ready to Ship
A Few Pictures Are Worth...
Broadcom’s Take on Vectoring
ASSIA Launches DSLAM-Neutral Version of Vectoring
Alcatel, ADTRAN, ASSIA, Broadcom, Lantiq Bring out
Vectoring Guns
Ikanos Says Its Node Scale Vectoring Provides 200 Mbps
over Existing Copper
FTTdp
Lantiq’s FTTdp Technology Does 250 Mbps over Existing
Copper
Low-Cost, Low-Power Mini Cabinets withLantiq Chips Can Be
Mounted Anywhere
FTTdp’s Impact on Telcos Could Be Significant
DSL RINGS
Startup Genesis Technical Launches 400 Mbps Broadband
over Copper Wires
DSL Rings Compared to VDSL2 Vectoring
Compared to G.Fast
NEW EQUIPMENT IN THE HOME
Home Network Speeds Keeping up with Broadband
Lantiq, Qualcomm Atheros Produce xDSL/11ac Gateway Design
Broadcom Launches New Gateway Chips for Telcos
Sagemcom Launches Gateway with Vectoring
G.FAST
The G.Fast Connection
G.Fast Provides 500 Mbps to 1 Gbps to theHome over
Telcos’ Existing Copper
Sckipio Makes Its Debut with G.Fast
FIBER
Is Fiber to the Home Dead?
We All Agree on the Need to Go To Fiber. Right? Well
Don’t We?
Broadcom Chips Increase Speeds to Coax & Copper Wire
Cabinets…
BT to Offer 300 Mbps in 2013
Tiny All-Fiber Networks Popping Up Throughout the States
ADTRAN Helps Tiny Ohio Telco Go All Fiber
