Bonded DSL Rings (BDR), a new technology developed by Genesis Technical Systems (GTS), reportedly can deliver up to 400 megabits per second bandwidth to both rural and urban customers at 1/20th the cost of fiber over existing copper phone lines.

 

"GTS's BDR solution provides Quality of Service (QoS) which creates a new paradigm in telecom service delivery in such an economical way that it can be applied throughout a Telco's entire rural and urban network," said Stephen Cooke, inventor of BDR.

 

The company will showcase the benefits of its patent pending technology BDR at the Broadband World Forum Asia 2008 to be held from July 13 to 16, in Hong Kong. A proof of concept of BDR was already demonstrated successfully at the Broadband World Forum in Berlin, Germany in October 2007 and at the MINT Lab in November 2007.

 

BDR is a environmentally friendly and more cost effective solution that works on a different technology by combining DSL and Resilient Packet Rings (RPR) and totally re-configures the existing cable plant allowing high-bandwidth services to be deployed on a network-wide basis; including sub-urban and rural environments.

 

Some of the advantages to Rural Telco customers from Bonded DSL Rings include; being able to access urban style Telco services including High Definition Television (HDTV) over Digital subscriber line (DSL); High Quality Video phone calls; Home security monitoring with video, E911 when power fails and download speeds exceeding what future cable will offer urban customers. In addition, with BDR Telco customers get greater reliability and quality of service plus convergence of Wired/Wireless telephony called Fixed Mobile Convergence (News - Alert).

 

"It utilizes two very familiar and successful technologies and is completely pay-as-you-go, eliminating the huge early investment required by fiber-to-the-premises networks," stated James Heath, Director of Broadband Research at Dittberner Associates.