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Rudolph Muller

Rudolph Muller is the editor at MyBroadband and covers telecoms and broadband news. Rudolph comes from an academic background, but left the University of...

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New bonded DSL rings (BDR) technology developed by Genesis Technical Systems (GTS) of Calgary, Canada, was recently demonstrated at the Broadband World Forum in Berlin. According to GTS this proof of concept technology promises bandwidth of up to 400Mbps second at a much lower cost than fibre.

“BDR will give telcos a competitive advantage in rural broadband and urban markets. BDR will further give telcos a better return on investment and is more environmentally friendly than fibre,” said GTS.

With BDR’s “complete telco solution” (rural broadband and urban), telecommunications companies can generate substantial new value from their existing copper telephone lines without the massive investment needed for fibre which is only a partial solution.

GTS claims that the return on investment for telcos using BDR can be about one year in rural and urban areas compared to more than 10 years for fibre deployment in urban areas only.

“GTS’s BDR solution provides quality of service (QoS) which creates a new paradigm in telecoms service delivery in such an economical way that it can be applied throughout a telco’s entire rural and urban network,” said Stephen Cooke, BDR inventor.

“Also, because BDR reuses a telco’s existing copper telephone lines it is more environmentally friendly than fibre as there is no digging to install it and it can be used for automated meter reading by utilities.”

Bonded DSL rings from GTS combine DSL and resilient packet rings (RPR) to provide greater bandwidth and higher quality services to the consumer.

“It utilises two very familiar and successful technologies and is completely pay-as-you-go, eliminating the huge early investment required by fibre-to-the-premises networks.”

“It reuses the existing wireline network infrastructure to provide a 400Mbps resilient packet ring” said James Heath, director of broadband research at Dittberner Associates.

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