Observations from CeBIT

by Volker Weber

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When I return from CeBIT people will ask me, what's new? Well, that depends entirely on what you find interesting. Here are a few observations:

Comments

I'm with Gruber regarding Apple and Netbooks.

And does the fact that I'm using an Air mean I'm not a professional? ;-)

Stefan Tilkov, 2009-03-05

No, it means you have a power source readily available and you don't mind carrying a power brick.

Volker Weber, 2009-03-05

Interesting stuff about broadband. I was under the impression that ADSL 2+ (20 Mbps/1Mbps) was pretty much the end of the line for Copper based residential connections and that we would need to move to Fiber beyond that. From what I read you need to be less than 1Km away from the DSLAM for VDSL to work, that means I'm out of luck, and I need to look for a new house ;-( Too bad I really liked my 1782 House in the middle of the French country side.. (I'm 1.8 Km away from my DSLAM).

Joel Demay, 2009-03-05

Joel, what they here is that they run fiber close to the homes and then use copper for the last 300 meters. Here is a gallery of the technology and how it is deployed in Germany.

Volker Weber, 2009-03-05

Article (german) about VDSL in Germany. Pretty old, but the basics are well explained.

http://www.zdnet.de/mobile/tkomm/0,39023192,39141043,00.htm

Dirk Rose, 2009-03-05

I want this "braadband" for myself :-)

Markus Dierker, 2009-03-05

Damn, checking for VDSL coverage reveals that I live about 150m away from a zone with maximum bandwidth :-(

Stefan Tilkov, 2009-03-06

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