Eircom has become one of the first telecommunications companies in the world to deploy VDSL2 vectoring technology in its next generation fibre access network, boosting broadband speeds up to 100Mb/s for more than 700,000 homes and businesses across Ireland.
Vectoring on VDSL2 vectoring technology uses noise cancelling to boost broadband speeds to homes and businesses.
Eircom has already deployed vectoring technology to 150 of its 3,000 fibre broadband cabinets. By the end of this month, vectoring will have been deployed to the vast majority of cabinets.
Upon completion, eircom estimates that at least 70% of the approximately 700,000 homes and businesses currently passed by its fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) network will be able to achieve speeds of between 70Mb/s and 100Mb/s.
Commenting on the development Carolan Lennon, managing director, eircom Wholesale, said: “Leading telecoms analysts such as Analysys Mason estimate that by 2020 European homes and small businesses will need download speeds of 100Mbps. With the deployment of vectoring we’re making those speeds available to homes and businesses within our existing national fibre footprint now, and the 1.4 million homes and businesses we intend to reach by 2016.
“We continue to work closely with global vendors, such as Huawei, to explore further hugely exciting technological developments in this area such as G.Fast, which offers the potential of future step changes in both upload and download broadband speeds by driving fibre further out into our network.”
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