Want 50Mb per second? Forget fibre

dahamsta

Want 50Mb per second? Forget fibre
By Jan Libbenga
Posted: 12/09/2003 at 14:44 GMT

Think fibre to the home is the future? Think again.
Finnish company Teleste, a European supplier of network kit for cable operators, has signed a co-operation agreement with the second biggest Dutch cable operator Essent Kabelcom to develop and deploy a fast IP-based data access technology called Ethernet to the Home (ETTH).

ETTH offers speeds up to 10 Mb/s data speed to residential customers without the need of active consumer premise equipment, and up to 50Mb/s symmetrical data connectivity to business customers.

More importantly, it works with plain old coax cables. That means cable operators can extend the life of their present networks with only limited changes to their infrastructure. Since the technology is fully Ethernet based, subscribers won't need a modem or an adapter either. They can plug their computers straight into the wall.

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dahamsta

I had to post this Register ad as well, it seems... appropriate...

andrew163

oh yay........
ETA 75 years in Ireland (theyll first roll out FTTH instead in 50 years, then theyll realise that this is cheaper, so theyll dig up all the fibre, turn it into a nice bracelet as a retirement gift for Bertie Jr., and then take 25 years to roll ETTH out, all part-financed by the Empire of Eircom, as it will then be known) :rolleyes:

sorry i started typing and didnt stop

MarcusGarvey

All we need to do is convince Finland to invade us and take over our infrastructure .. while staying away from our pub laws.

andrew163

if only we were still in the age where vikings invaded small undefended countries like Ireland at random.........

stupid social progress :mad:

rymus

"Finland, Finland, Finland... the country where I quite want to be, your mountains so lofty... your treetops so tall.. Finland, Finland, Finland... Finland has it allllll"

Monty Python had it right

maxheadroom

Originally posted by MarcusGarvey
All we need to do is convince Finland to invade us and take over our infrastructure .. while staying away from our pub laws.

[OT]Why - it seems to me that the Finnish pub legislation is a hell of a lot less restrictive than ours is.. [/OT]

crawler

Muck - I'm on to this.

spongebob

Originally posted by crawler
Muck - I'm on to this.

I look forward to the end result ........

M

NeoSlicerZ

I too look forward to it

LFCFan

Originally posted by MarcusGarvey
All we need to do is convince Finland to invade us and take over our infrastructure .. while staying away from our pub laws.

you mean, they have even worse pubs laws then ours?

maxheadroom

Originally posted by LFCFan
you mean, they have even worse pubs laws then ours?

I've spent quite a bit of time there, and they really don't... alcohol is more expensive there because of huge tax on it though (even worse than here).

Off-licences are another story though...