[Deutsche Telekom Northern Westphalia ADSL Service Trial]
hi s.g.
good info today, both orctf and dt press releases for the trial... cross referencing.. sounds like orctf is doing Cologne and Bonn and alcatel is doing Dortmund and Dsseldorf... the tender out now must be for the expansion to eight cities "before the end of this year" ... 3 of the above: Cologne, Bonn, and Dsseldorf (Dortmund is left off the list)... plus 5 more: Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfort, Stuttgart, and Munich...
also at the end of the dt press release siemens and nec are mentioned for university of Mnster and RWTH Aachen technical college... Mnster is from fall of 97 siemens/amati.. this is the first i've heard of nec/dt... tho this portion does not seem central to press release...
rumors sounding good (best price for dt tender)... with (maybe) best product... could be a winner... sounds like ala is the serious competition...
Bengt Lundin, General Manager Orckit Europe, sounds like the real thing... he recently joined orctf from motorola (president and gm europe- mobile data div.) before that he was with ericsson (international operations manager)...
>>My personal opinion to this issue: "How can G.Lite compete against 8 Meg ADSL or even VDSL in the future?".<<
agree.. for countries such as germany with infrastructure in place, believe vdsl will be big and here sooner than many think ... probably bigger than adsl in 5 -10 years(?)... some have been saying that adsl will be a transitional technology to vdsl.. everything adsl can do vdsl can do better etc etc...
til later,
s
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from dt's website:
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Deutsche Telekom launches ADSL pilot project in North-Rhine/Westphalia
450 private households and companies use copper cable for broadband multimedia applications - Extension to eight cities later this year
June 15 1998 -- Deutsche Telekom AG today launched a pilot project for broadband multimedia applications based on the new ADSL (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line) technology. In the course of the pilot project, being carried out in conjunction with the State of North-Rhine/Westphalia as part of the media NRW initiative, 450 private households and companies in Bonn, Cologne, Dortmund and Dsseldorf are to test groundbreaking solutions for high-speed data communications in the future. Before the end of this year, ADSL-based services are to be available in eight cities around Germany.
The pilot project was officially launched today at the Cologne Media Forum by Mr. Wolfgang Clement, State Premier of North-Rhine/Westphalia, and Mr. Gerd Tenzer, member of the Deutsche Telekom AG Board of Management responsible for the Networks Division. In future, Deutsche Telekom will use the technology to provide attractive broadband services. Super-fast Internet access is to give private households in particular an appetiser of the Internet in the coming millennium. Innovative T-Net-ATM and T-InterConnect products based on ADSL technology are to open up the world of high-speed data communications to new business customer segments. Premier Wolfgang Clement considers the ADSL pilot project to be highly significant for North-Rhine/Westphalia. "The media and communications industry in North-Rhine/Westphalia will thus have an opportunity to develop services and applications for the emerging multimedia market at an early date. Most notably, it will become easier and less expensive for small and medium-sized companies to enter the multimedia age. Last, but not least, this pilot project will enable us to acquire expertise, giving us a lead in the competition to be an attractive location for business and industry.
In his statement, Mr. Tenzer described Deutsche Telekom's expansion strategy for the future: "Before the end of this year, we plan to install ADSL accesses for our customers in eight German cities, namely Hamburg, Berlin, Dsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Munich. By the year 2003, we intend to extend this service to a total of 75 towns and cities." Mr. Tenzer continued: "With this expansion programme, Deutsche Telekom is at the cutting edge of the international telecommunications market."
Using the new ADSL technology will make the existing copper cable a high-speed data highway in the near future. This is made possible by an ADSL high-speed modem, operating at transmission rates of up to eight megabits per second. A switch installed between the modem and the network access, a so-called splitter, separates the normal telephone service from the high-bit-rate data applications so that Deutsche Telekom's telephone services can still be used via the copper cable without restriction in parallel to transmission of data.
With the ADSL network termination and the splitter, the telephone line becomes a multi-purpose tool for domestic and professional use. The new ADSL technology is not, however, a substitute for a telephone line or an ISDN access, rather it allows continued further development for the use of high-speed Internet and data applications.
In the course of the pilot project, transmission rates for the residential pilot project customers will be up to 1.5 megabits per second (downstream, towards the customer) and 128 kilobits per second (upstream). For business customers, the data will be flying towards them at up to 8 megabits per second and in the opposite direction speeds will reach a still impressive 768 kilobits per second. When the participants in the pilot project turn on their computers, they can access special pilot applications via a North-Rhine/Westphalia homepage or surf through the Internet at high speed - some fifty times faster than with an analogue modem.
Even in the pilot phase of operation the customers already have access to an attractive range of services, including content material from all areas of multimedia; there are business applications and games, films and music. As much attention has been paid to the interests of residential customers as to those of business customers. The videos from InfoDATA show the user where the world is at its most beautiful. Sony presents music and video clips; film trailers provide information on the latest movies; T-Online is lining up with broadband applications such as Focus-TV, ran online or DSF online. The virtual training and information centre "Virtuelles Bildungs- und Informationszentrum VBIZ" of the Macronet company allows teaching videos to be called up for trainees. The image database of Dimedis contains a wide range of excellent snapshots. The range of services on offer in the pilot project is constantly updated and extended.
The pilot project is set to run until the end of this year. The experience gained from the "market launch project" will be taken into consideration in the future structure of services. In the trial cities Bonn, Dortmund, Dsseldorf and Cologne, ADSL technology from the companies Orckit and SEL Alcatel is to be tested. In addition, and in cooperation with Siemens AG, Deutsche Telekom is including 100 students at the university of Mnster in the project and, in cooperation with the company NEC, 50 students and academical staff at RWTH Aachen technical college. For further information, please contact:
Deutsche Telekom Press Office
Willfried Seibel
tel: +49 228 181 4949
fax: +49 228 181 8941
e-mail: www.dtag.de
dtag.de
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