Alcatel-Lucent confirms leadership in VDSL2

Alcatel-Lucent has confirmed that it has shipped its one millionth VDSL2 vectoring line.

This is the newest DSL technology that enables communications service providers to give their customers super-fast broadband by upgrading their existing copper access infrastructure.

Service providers around the world are under intense pressure from both customers and policy makers to provide high-speed broadband as quickly as possible. While fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) remains the ultimate goal, many service providers have identified the need for additional technology in the near-term to help reach broadband coverage targets.

Alcatel-Lucent's one million VDSL2 vectoring lines have been delivered to 11 different service providers, including Belgacom and Telekom Austria. In addition, Alcatel-Lucent has been involved in more than 40 trials, including TDC Denmark, China Telecom, and, with P&T Luxembourg, the world's first trial combining VDSL2 vectoring with bonding, a technique that doubles the distance over which 100 Mbps can be provided.

Confirmation of Alcatel-Lucent's leading position in VDSL2 vectoring comes from analyst firm Broadband trends and its VDSL2 Vectoring Report. To coincide with the publishing of this report Alcatel-Lucent has also released an infographic about VDSL2 vectoring.

For its report, Broadband trends evaluated eight vendors across a number of categories including availability of product, system features, field trials and actual deployment experience. Alcatel-Lucent achieved the overall highest score of all vendors, scoring top marks in all categories but separating itself from the rest of the group in sheer experience with actual deployments.

Teresa Mastrangelo, founder of Broadband trends said "VDSL2 vectoring clearly has the potential to relieve the pressure being put on service providers to deliver high-speed broadband today. In terms of the technology, Alcatel-Lucent remains far ahead of the competition, with not only an extensive portfolio of solutions, but numerous live deployments and field trials in every region."

The Broadband trends VDSL2 Vectoring Report also gives the first indication of market potential for vectoring, predicting that all VDLS2 lines shipped from 2014 onwards will be vector-capable, reaching a total installed base of 59 million vectoring lines by 2017. Alcatel-Lucent's trials have been in all corners of the world, indicating the global interest in VDSL2 vectoring technology.

Federico Guillen, president of Alcatel-Lucen's Fixed Networks business, said "Many broadband customers around the world still only get 2 to 8 Mbps connections at home. Knowing that their existing DSL plug in the wall could provide up to 100 Mbps is very exciting. Alcatel-Lucent's aim is to help service providers get to fast, faster. Because of its performance, speed of deployment, and low cost, VDSL2 vectoring is a viable business proposition to meet service providers' immediate broadband objectives while we continue to partner with them on FTTH for their long-term goals."