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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amd2100" data-source="post: 15069899" data-attributes="member: 89729">News Highlights                    SLT’s 100Mbps super-fast broadband internet goes live in Sri Lanka.                  Thursday, May 23, 2013                                            <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">  Introducing VDSL2 technology in Sri Lanka; provides data speeds faster than any other broadband technology in the country.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Groundbreaking VDSL2 technology  has capability to enhance customers¡¯ broadband experience; provides  very high speeds of up to 100Mbps.</li> </ul>Celebrating  ¡®World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) last  week, the National Telecommunication Service Provider ¨C Sri Lanka  Telecom (SLT) announced the soft launch of its VDSL2 (Very-High-Bit-Rate Digital Subscriber Line 2)  advanced fixed broadband technology. The addition of this new tech  means the company¡¯s broadband users could expect speeds of up to  100Mbps. The  newly introduced VDSL2 technology based fixed broadband, its speed and  access capabilities were demonstrated to the Hon. Ranjith  Siyambalapitiya, Minister of Telecommunications and Information  Technology in the presence of Lalith De Silva, Group CEO, SLT and many  other top officials. The initial demonstration held at the Sri Lanka  Telecom Regional Office in Kegalle recorded data speeds in excess of  90Mbps. SLT  has plans to expand the services to other regions as well by upgrading  its fixed broadband network in the near future. SLT¡¯s technology  leadership continues to revolutionize internet usage across the country  whilst expanding Sri Lanka¡¯s broadband capacity, availability and  affordability to empower Sri Lankan internet users with consistent,  uninterrupted, high-speed broadband internet access with the highest  reliability. Mr.  Lalith De Silva, Group Chief Executive Officer of SLT said, ¡°The  launch of VDSL2 advanced fixed broadband technology at SLT means a boost  in broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps. These near-fibre optic levels  speeds are unmatched to any other broadband service in the country. This  is certainly a welcome upgrade in our stride, considering that the  Global Networked Readiness Index (NRI) ranks Sri Lanka only behind India  in the SAARC region. A recent ITU report also refers to Sri Lanka¡¯s as  having a ¡®very dynamic broadband market¡¯. Global mentions such as  these are quite significant and are signs that we are surely working  towards bridging the digital divide in the country. It is very exciting  to be a part of the development of the broadband industry in Sri Lanka  and SLT will continue to keep working towards transforming the ICT  landscape of the country. Upgrading the existing ADSL-based broadband  customer experience up to this level is definitely a remarkable  achievement by SLT. ¡± VDSL2  operates over copper lines, just like ADSL and ADSL2+ technologies do,  to deliver high speed internet. However, it has more capabilities which  can deliver amazing broadband performance while delivering triple-play  services of Telephone, Broadband and Peo TV. VDSL2 is the fastest of the  DSL provisions of broadband, and uses a combination of nodes and  existing copper telephone cables to provide the highest available  frequency of DSL. VDSL2 can achieve incredible speeds, as high as up to  100Mbps downstream theoretically. This is much faster than ADSL and  ADSL2+ technologies providing up to 16 Mbps downstream at present around  the country. Speaking  further, De Silva mentioned, ¡°Today, the need for more bandwidth is  driven by the user¡¯s willingness to access bandwidth-hungry  applications like high-definition video delivered over the Internet to  an increasing number of devices including laptops, connected TVs,  smartphones and tablets. While fibre is the best broadband bearer for  high speeds, copper still has a lot to offer broadband users.¡± Telecommunication  companies around the world are increasingly replacing many of their  core networks and access networks with fiber-optics, hence the reason  behind operators choosing to deploy VDSL2 access technology. In fact,  many companies have Fiber-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) in the pipeline. This  will replace all existing copper lines right up to the point where the  telephone line branches off at the user location. Another option that  companies are looking at implementing is Fiber-to-the-Neighborhood/Node  (FTTN). Instead of installing fiber-optic cables along each street, FTTN  has fiber going to the main junction box to a particular neighbourhood.  This is the very same network architecture SLT has deployed for its  ongoing network modernisation projects such as ¡®i-Sri Lanka¡¯ (access  network) and the Next Generation Network (NGN) - the core network.<a href="http://www.slt.lk/content/slt%E2%80%99s-100mbps-super-fast-broadband-internet-goes-live-sri-lanka" target="_blank">http://www.slt.lk/content/slt’s-100mbps-super-fast-broadband-internet-goes-live-sri-lanka</a></blockquote>

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