25Mbit/s upstream speeds are on the way
This is great news for technology like izimi…
Higher-speed DSL in trials
A potential future technology is very high bit-rate DSL (VDSL and VDSL2) deployment, which can provide downstream speeds of up to 50Mbit/s (although VDSL2 is theoretically capable of as much as 250Mbit/s), and upstream speeds in the region of 25Mbit/s. Ntl carried out a VDSL2 trial in Kent in early 2006, achieving typical downstream speeds of around 50Mbit/s.
Also, its important to realise the speed with which the bandwidth market has changed, we sometimes forget…
A key characteristic of the broadband market in 2005 was the increasing take-up of higher speed broadband, with promises of greater speed to come. At the beginning of 2005, offers above 1Mbit/s were rare, expensive (around twice the price of a 512k offer) and aimed primarily at the high-end residential and small-business markets. By early 2006, speeds of 2Mbit/s and above had become standard; ntl, Telewest and BT all upgraded their customers during 2005 to 1Mbit/s and then 2Mbit/s as standard, without increasing prices.
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