30Mbps to Tye’s house
February 22, 2008 – 10:52 pmOur team today turned up pair bonded ADSL2+ to Tye C’s place. Tye works in tech support, and happens to live a little over one mile of copper wire away from the Santa Rosa downtown central office. And tonight, Tye is rocking 30Mbps of downstream bandwidth on two simple copper pairs. Nice work guys!
The loops to the house are each running about 15Mbps sync. The maximum sync that ADSL2+ can deliver is 24Mbps. But like ADSL1, which can do 8Mbps, in the real world we expect a slightly lower level. In ADSL1, the maximum practical speed is generally 6Mbps for most locations, and for ADSL2+, I think we’ll be real happy if we see 20Mbps as the top end in the real world. The 15Mbps speed that Tye’s got is likely to be more common.
This makes bonding even more interesting. Every home has at least two “phone lines” - we can deliver voice lines on both of them (main home line, second line for home office or FAX perhaps), plus bonded IP at 2x the ADSL2+ sync. That means some serious bandwidth potential for our business and residential users.
I’ll caution that we haven’t yet designed product specifications and price points for residential users at this speed, but the technology does work. The business model is a separate question.
3 Responses to “30Mbps to Tye’s house”
Thats so amazing!!! I have just moved to Canada, and here in Montreal there are some small local ISP’s that are re-selling BellCanada ADSL2 that has been rolled out in cities (Montreal, Toronto)… hopefully Ill get hooked up with that too… But that 30MB really competes with fiber very well.
– Stefan in Montreal
By Stefan on Feb 23, 2008
Does the hardware handle the stream splitting. We have a redundant connection at work adsl/broadlink and there is no easy way to combine them for more speed. I’m thinking how you’d have to split the packets or have the splitting built into the protocol.
By Walter Hansen on Mar 12, 2008
It’s bonding - so it’s a true 30Mbps link. That said, at this point there is not a stable and generally available CPE which offers bonding of ADSL2+, so it’s likely be a some time before we are able to offer real products based upon this technology.
Meanwhile, our EFM (Ethernet in the First Mile) bonded products are available now at a variety of speeds for business customers.
By Dane Jasper on Mar 12, 2008