Alcatel-Lucent and Telekom Austria Group complete world's first trial of new technology enabling ultra-fast broadband over existing copper networks

摘要

Alcatel-Lucent and A1, the Austrian subsidiary of Telekom Austria Group, have conducted the world's first trial of an innovation from Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs that can upgrade existing copper telecommunications networks into ultra-fast broadband access systems capable of delivering video, data and information at speeds of more than 1 gigabit per second (Gbps). With Alcatel-Lucent repositioning itself as a specialist in IP Networking and Ultra-broadband access, the company has adapted Bell Labs vectoring techniques - already in widespread commercial deployment in VDSL2 networks - to work with a new transmission technology called G.fast, which use a wide frequency band to achieve very high speeds on copper lines over very short distances.