Thought this might be of interest. From Telecom media realeses mailing list.
Chris Foster
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JETSTREAM BREAKS NEW SPEED AND COVERAGE BARRIERS
Telecom's fast Internet service JetStream has crashed through new
barriers - hitting speeds of up to an average 75 times faster than a
standard dial-up Internet service, and reaching about 60% of Telecom's
customers.
Telecom expects to make JetStream available to 75% of all customers by the
end of 2002. The ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) technology
that drives JetStream has the potential to hit speeds of up to an average
200 times faster than dial-up in the future.
Telecom has run fresh tests on the network as the company finishes
upgrading customers' JetStream modems to match a new international
standard for ADSL technology.
The figures are based on the time it takes to download a large file from a
server on Telecom's ADSL network, rather than a server on the Internet, to
avoid the variables of the web such as the time of day and number of
people trying to access a site.
"These tests show our ADSL-enabled telephone exchanges are now delivering
speeds averaging 3 megabits per second, and our minimum service target is
still a very fast 2 megabits per second," Telecom's General Manager, Data
and Voice, Mark Ratcliffe said.
"However the link from the customer to their exchange has the capacity to
run at an average 8 megabits per second and we have the potential to
engineer the rest of the network to match that in the future. That's about
twice as much speed as you need to deliver broadcast quality rather than
Internet quality video," he said.
"We're delighted at the way these tests reveal that the investment and the
care Telecom has taken in engineering this country's standard copper
telephone network over the last few decades is now bearing fruit in the
broadband era.
"The interesting picture emerging is that the ADSL technology allows us to
connect an average 95% of customers on JetStream exchanges who ask for the
service, so the distance a customer lives from their exchange is not such
a factor as we first thought," Mr Ratcliffe said.
The JetStream service will sign up it's 10,000th customer this month, and
sales are now growing at an average 24% per month.
"People are opting for JetStream at a rate of 60 to 80 a day, and as more
come on board we will invest to extend coverage still further. Right now
it's available to around half our residential customers, two-thirds of our
business customers and three-quarters of our corporate customers," Mr
Ratcliffe said.
"ADSL gives each customer an individual link with the exchange, so the
speeds they get are not affected by the bandwidth demands of their
neighbours - it's like the difference between having your own phone line
and using a party line.
"People also like the fact that with JetStream their broadband service is
always on, allows them to use them phone at the same time, and is simple
to install," Mr Ratcliffe said.
By the end of this month JetStream will be enabled on 80 exchanges in 13
metropolitan and provincial centres - Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga,
Rotorua, New Plymouth, Napier, Hastings, Wanganui, Palmerston North,
Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedin.
By Christmas ADSL will be enabled on a further 5 exchanges, including
those in Queenstown and Whangarei.
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Received on Mon Nov 27 10:16:59 2000