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Telekom Austria boosts speed with vectoring
24 January 2012
Telekom Austria’s A1 says vectoring technology will increase data transmission speeds across its network
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Telekom Austria’s domestic unit A1 is set to increase fixed subscribers’ internet speeds with a new vectoring technology being launched in collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent.
The technology will “significantly” increase data transmission speeds across the company’s network and will help improve network capacities over existing copper lines with minimum expenses, Telekom Austria said in a statement.
Walter Goldenits, CTO of A1, said: “The still untapped potential of copper lines is incredibly impressive. Since the late 1990s, when private households started to use modems for data transmission, we have been able to reach a thousand-fold increase in transmission capacities of existing copper lines.”
Telekom Austria will launch the technology in Korneuburg, 12 kilometres north-west of Vienna. If it works as hoped it will be expanded to other cities as part of a fibre-to-the-kerb network. In the second half of 2012, the company will introduce the technology in the remaining areas covered by A1’s fixed high-speed network.
Goldenits said: “We have to provide our customers with a full-coverage broadband network with ever-increasing bandwidths starting from today.”
Telekom Austria said that the technology will help achieve the country’s goal for universal broadband access outlined in the EU Digital Agenda for Europe. This, the company says, can be achieved only through broadband connections with transmission speeds of at least 30 megabits a second by 2020.
The vectoring technology, developed at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs, will help achieve data transmission speeds of up to 100 megabits a second at 300 metres and 50 megabits a second at 800 metres. GTB
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