San Diego March 7th New transmission technology improves standard 26 gauge phone line performance.
Phone companies may be able to provide Internet, voice and video connections at nine times the distance of cable companies if field trials conducted later this year prove a new technology usable in the real world. New Wheel Technology Inc., a subsidiary of New Visual Entertainment Inc., recently received independent third-party verification by Lucent Technologies of its patent-pending transmission technology. The company's Cu@OCx broadband transmission technology transmitted data over a standard 26-gauge copper telephone wire pair for about 9,000 feet at a speed of 54.445 million bits per second. It probably will be transmitted at "very high rate digital subscriber line," or VDSL, rates at 52 megabits for 9,000 feet. Others in the industry have transmitted at 52 megabits for 1,000 feet or 26 megabits for 4,500 feet. "We're doing at least a nine times improvement," said C. Rich Wilson, New Wheel's vice president of marketing. New Visual is developing a proprietary broadband transmission with the mission to utilize existing copper telecommunications infrastructure to deliver high-data content to the home or office at VDSL, or fiber optic data transfer rates. The technology will allow the bundling of voice, video and data over existing copper telephone wires, thus potentially eliminating the need for fiber optic cable to the home or office. Its initial development efforts include VDSL.
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