Can copper still compete with fiber in broadband networks? Ikanos says yes - and has the numbers to back it up.

100Mbits/s over copper pairs? You’d better believe it, and Ikanos shows you how to do it.

Hey, I have nothing against fiber-to-the-home – except that its high cost means that it will be a decade or two until carriers can afford to get the majority of their customers hooked up. Ikanos’ informative white paper provides an eye-opening comparison of the economics of fiber and copper-based networks. It also shows how VDSL technologies can be used as part of a fiber-to-the-node architecture to accelerate deployment of Broadband 2.0 services that deliver fiber-class data, voice and video at a small fraction of the cost of an all-fiber network. Designers will find the economic analysis very useful while tech managers and marketing types will benefit from the concise overview of VDSL/VDSL technology and its capabilities. 

Click here to see Ikanos’ announcement. Click here to download a copy of their whitepaper; “Broadband 2.0: How Technology and Economics Make Copper Ideal for the Next Wave of Advanced Services”.