Bell Canada still uses a lot of VDSL2 last-miles in Quebec and Ontario.
Max speed is 100/10 over bonded pairs and 50/10 over a single pair over short distances. Generally served from a fiber-fed DSLAM and less than 500 meters. On Oct 15 2019, at 1:48 pm, Rod Beck <rod.b...@unitedcablecompany.com> wrote: > I understand. My recollection is that the distance is like 100 meters. VDSL > is what the engineers deploying on the street told me. I think there is a > node right outside. > > > Regards, > > Roderick. > > From: Matt Harris <m...@netfire.net> > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:37 PM > To: Rod Beck <rod.b...@unitedcablecompany.com> > Cc: Nanog@nanog.org <Nanog@nanog.org> > Subject: Re: VDSL > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 12:25 PM Rod Beck <rod.b...@unitedcablecompany.com > (mailto:rod.b...@unitedcablecompany.com)> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I discovered that the Budapest cable company was using VDLS to provide > > services up to 500 megs into the buildings where my flats are located. VDSL > > is a pretty old standard. I recollect people talking about it back in 1998. > > > > Is it being heavily deployed in Last Mile networks state side? > > Hey Rod, > Are you sure they're using VDSL (I'm assuming you mean VDSL2 which is still > in fairly wide use around the world)? 500mbit VDSL2 would have a very short > run limitation afaik. It wouldn't be last mile, more like last meter. :) > > It's not super-widely used in the US today since Verizon and others have > built out increasing FTTH networks and always had to compete with DOCSIS > based services which are very widespread here, though I wouldn't be surprised > if it was still frequently the "better than satellite!" service available in > some rural areas that aren't too hard to reach with cabling. A decade ago, > you would've seen a lot more VDSL2 deployments here in the US, though usually > no more than 25 or 50 mbit capacity for the end-user. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_VDSL_and_VDSL2_deployments has a bunch > of interesting details though I can attest to some of them being fairly out > of date.
