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Squeezing Copper into Delivering More

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Squeezing Copper into Delivering More

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  • Author: Chris Dunford
The insatiable thirst of consumers for more broadband services (IPTV and high-speed Internet) continues to increase, and this, while today’s economic woes push back on the installation of newer last-mile fiber solutions (FTTH). This reality is forcing service providers to pursue high-speed alternatives. One convenient high-speed alternative to fiber is squeezing and enhancing DSL to support greater capacity broadband services; this is known as bonding. Bonding is covered by multiple ITU-T standards depending on Ethernet or ATM implementations (G.998.x). Bonding ADSL2+ and/or VDSL2 allows service providers to reuse their copper infrastructure and to offer higher speeds within a given serving area, or to expand their reach to new areas, to attract more customers with high-speed package service offerings.

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