VDSL and Triple Play

The broadband Internet gives providers and consumers more opportunities. This increased speed is not an end unto itself. The faster connections translate into increased level of user convenience and a successful lowering of access barriers. Using new media and content becomes easier and more natural. Triple Play means Internet access, Internet telephony and content piped over the broadband network together. The potential and strength of this concept first becomes really obvious in connection with the ultra-fast VDSL data highway. The combination of Triple Play and VDSL is unbeatable in terms of the successful development and diffusion of broadband Internet.

What services, products or technologies will drive this development? Which new, attractive products are we dealing with here? And how will the market develop? In the following pages you will find some interesting answers and information to guide us through the worlds of VDSL and Triple Play.

• The diffusion of VDSL depends critically on Triple Play products, broadband communications solutions and a comprehensive set of customer services.
• Providers with telephone network infrastructures have the best growth opportunities on the VDSL market.
• In the future Internet telephony and TV products will be absolute musts for all VDSL/Triple Play products.
• In the future TV set-top-boxes combined with digital video recorders will be the dominant digital content media centers.