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Test house starts work with new standards…
Test consultancy TRaC says it is set to become one of the first laboratories in the world to offer testing against new Very High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line 2 (VDSL2) standards announced this month by the Broadband Forum. TRaC will be utilising its newly extended Hull, UK-based test laboratory to offer its global customer base testing against the new Broadband Forum Technical Reports (TRs) TR-114 and TR-115. TR-114 provides a set of performance requirements for VDSL2 (ITU-T G.993.2) modems and test methods that will provide operators guaranteed performance between the DSLAM and the CPE for the first time. TR-115 is aimed at boosting chipset interoperability to create improved interworking and increase competition in the market. “We have been offering VDSL2 testing for two years but without specific industry-defined standards. Now we have new Broadband Forum recommendations which allow our customers to test their products against a recognised benchmark, in order that they can respond to operator RFPs anywhere in the world where VDSL2 is deployed,” comments TRaC Telecoms & Radio managing director Paul Russell. The Broadband Forum has also announced TR-138, a third part to the VDSL2 testing suite. This specifies accuracy requirements for VDSL2 and ADSL2/2plus management parameters. “VDSL2 already allows service providers to deliver high bandwidth services to customers with copper access but until now these service providers have been limited both in their choice of vendor and what they can safely promise to deliver to their customers,” states Broadband Forum coo Robin Mersh. “The three TRs in this test suite change all that.” Ian Channing |
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