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- April-June 09 /
What’s brewing for broadband?
Recent ground-breaking high-speed broadband live demos have many customers eager to see what’s cooking in the Ericsson Research labs.
June 4, 2009
Visiting the labs is an excellent way to add an extra dimension to business discussions. Ericsson Research labs now have a host of demos on next-generation broadband access.
Hans Mickelsson, head of Ericsson Research Broadband Technologies, says: “Two years of hard research work is now paying off. We have a good base in all wireline access areas that we will continue to develop.”
Ericsson’s world-first live demonstration of Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line 2 (VDSL2)-based technology, achieving data transfer rates of more than 0.5Gbps, was received with great interest when the announcement was made in March.
The VDSL2-based technology, also known as vectorized VDSL2, offers unprecedented speeds on existing copper lines using bonding and vectoring techniques. This gives operators new opportunities to provide Mobile Backhaul and business broadband services, based on existing copper infrastructure.
Anders Hillbur, head of Product Marketing, Broadband Access at BNET Marketing & Communications, says the market response to the announcement was immediate.
“We received phone calls 24 hours a day for several weeks from customers and analysts wanting to know more about our solution,” Hillbur says.
Customers who are curious about Ericsson’s state-of-the-art demos on next generation broadband access can be invited to any of the research labs in Kista and Mölndal in Sweden, Pisa in Italy and San José in the US.
“Customers get to see live demos of what’s boiling in our labs that will become products in two to three year’s time,” Mickelsson says. “These are long-term developments often generate some interesting discussions we can build upon.”
Hillbur adds: “We believe visting the labs gives our customers confidence in our work by highlighting our deep knowledge about, and commitment to, the broadband access area in practice.”
Another proof point of Ericsson Research’s successful work came 2008, at the major broadband event NxtComm in Las Vegas, when the world’s first 10-GPON demo was announced.
“Customers visiting our labs are overwhelmed to see what is technically possible today; to see the speeds that an end user can reach,” Hillbur says.
| Ericsson research labs Three labs show state-of-the art demos on next generation broadband access. - Kista and San José: GPON and 10GPON - Mölndal: Gb-microwave radio - Pisa: WDM-PO |
