Can confirm. Currently on VDSL in rural Missouri, speed is capped at 5Mb/s, but 
has the capability of 7.5Mb/s. All customers from the provider here are on VDSL.

From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Matt Harris
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 12:38 PM
To: Rod Beck <rod.b...@unitedcablecompany.com>
Cc: 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interesting details though I can attest to some of them being fairly out of 
date.

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