Author: Karl |
Four bonded DSL or cable lines...
A British start-up by the name of Sharedband has launched their new service in select portions of Seattle, after initially only offering the idea in the UK. As the name suggests, the company bonds both DSL & cable lines from major providers to offer faster speeds to both residential and business-class customers. The provider uses off the shelf routers and their own custom firmware, though the service requires the customer be within range of Sharedband servers. A bit more detail from Telephony Online:
Sharedband’s initial offering uses a bank of managed centralized servers, off-the-shelf routers from Netgear and its own firmware to bond up to four ADSL lines for greater bandwidth speeds. When deployed with a Linksys WRT54 wireless router, Sharedband’s system can bond broadband lines from multiple providers, whether ADSL-based or not, allowing customers to couple service from telco and cable providers, for example.
The Sharedband FAQ is available here, and a technical pdf can be found here. For more info go to http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Sharedband-Hits-Seattle-91587 Article from DSLReports.com |
Sharedband Hits Seattle