THE OPPORTUNITY
The phenomenal growth of the Internet can be in large part attributed to the explosive growth in broadband services for consumers and small businesses. Today, almost 700 million of the world’s population are connected to the Internet via broadband technologies. And, while the new technologies of wireless and satellite are showing promise as future broadband technologies, the vast majority of broadband today is via ground lines, with the majority of those Subscriber Line technology.
The phenomenal growth of the Internet can be in large part attributed to the explosive growth in broadband services for consumers and small businesses. Today, almost 700 million of the world’s population are connected to the Internet via broadband technologies. And, while the new technologies of wireless and satellite are showing promise as future broadband technologies, the vast majority of broadband today is via ground lines, with the majority of those being Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology.
As the chart above shows, DSL continues to dominate broadband access. This is in part due to the relatively low capital expense for deploying DSL, which uses the existing copper telephone infrastructure to reach the customer. This advantage has given DSL the dominance in the market and has made it the preferred broadband service for the consumer by the Internet service providers. But, DSL also faces a technology challenge: how to extend its capability beyond the current limitations of 18,000 feet from the access point to the customer, which today is done only at DSL’s slowest speed, 300Kb/second.
That challenge has not, until now, been solved. Through its patented technology, Xtendwave has erased the distance and speed limitations of current DSL technology, and done so without the need to deploy a regenerator box, adding new wires, or digging new fiber conduits.
The Marketplace
The immediate benefit of Xtendwave’s technology will be to those carriers who serve a large rural population and remain outside the range of current DSL, as well as emerging third world countries where network constraints limit the subscriber growth. In the United States alone, there is an estimated six million consumers beyond the reach of current DSL capability, while in India and China the number is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions.
Xtendwave – Enabling A New Market for the DSL Equipment Provider
Because the Xtendwave solution is based upon algorithms integrated into DSL chipsets, the solution for DSL equipment providers to sell a new generation of “extended reach DSL” is straightforward. No additional equipment, power, or regeneration is required. Licensing agreements with Xtendwave will enable the DSL equipment provider to begin selling and deploying the new generation of DSL line cards to its new and existing carrier and service provider customers.
The phenomenal growth of the Internet can be in large part attributed to the explosive growth in broadband services for consumers and small businesses. Today, almost 700 million of the world’s population are connected to the Internet via broadband technologies. And, while the new technologies of wireless and satellite are showing promise as future broadband technologies, the vast majority of broadband today is via ground lines, with the majority of those being Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology.
As the chart above shows, DSL continues to dominate broadband access. This is in part due to the relatively low capital expense for deploying DSL, which uses the existing copper telephone infrastructure to reach the customer. This advantage has given DSL the dominance in the market and has made it the preferred broadband service for the consumer by the Internet service providers. But, DSL also faces a technology challenge: how to extend its capability beyond the current limitations of 18,000 feet from the access point to the customer, which today is done only at DSL’s slowest speed, 300Kb/second.
That challenge has not, until now, been solved. Through its patented technology, Xtendwave has erased the distance and speed limitations of current DSL technology, and done so without the need to deploy a regenerator box, adding new wires, or digging new fiber conduits.
The Marketplace
The immediate benefit of Xtendwave’s technology will be to those carriers who serve a large rural population and remain outside the range of current DSL, as well as emerging third world countries where network constraints limit the subscriber growth. In the United States alone, there is an estimated six million consumers beyond the reach of current DSL capability, while in India and China the number is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions.
Xtendwave – Enabling A New Market for the DSL Equipment Provider
Because the Xtendwave solution is based upon algorithms integrated into DSL chipsets, the solution for DSL equipment providers to sell a new generation of “extended reach DSL” is straightforward. No additional equipment, power, or regeneration is required. Licensing agreements with Xtendwave will enable the DSL equipment provider to begin selling and deploying the new generation of DSL line cards to its new and existing carrier and service provider customers.
