GENERAL FAQs

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What speed can I expect to get from an installation of DSL Rings?
Typically more than twenty times the current DSL speed in your area, or up to 400 Mb/s.

How do the DSL Rings costs compare with other technologies that can provide similar bandwidth?
DSL Rings can be installed for approximately 5% of the cost of fibre-to-the-home, the only other technology that can offer bandwidths on this order.

Do you need two pairs for DSL Rings to work?
No new cabling has to be installed. The existing two pairs are used. One pair connects to either the pedestal (or DP) or the neighbour on the right, and the other pair connects to the neighbour on the left. This is all done through the pedestal (or DP – the little box on the street corner).

What are the benefits of DSL Rings?
DSL Rings Technology is:

  • Superfast. 400 Mb/s. More than capable of delivering streaming high definition TV.
  • Affordable. Genesis modelling demonstrates that the per user cost of deploying DSL Rings is between 1% and 5% of the cost of laying a fibre optic infrastructure.
  • All inclusive. DSL Rings is effective in rural and urban areas, offering a technical leadership to the widest possible customer base, in the shortest possible time.
  • Environmentally sound. DSL Rings. is a low power solution with no requirement for batteries, nor extensive power equipment.
  • Non-disruptive. DSL Rings is implemented without disruption to the existing network. It also avoids the need for trenching, a requisite of deploying a fibre optic infrastructure, which causes significant disruption to local housing and business communities.
  • A complete solution. DSL Rings delivers superior performance for voice, video, and data.

    • How do you know the technology works?
    Our equipment has been built and demonstrated at several industry tradeshows and in the test labs of 2 major European incumbent telecom providers. These industry experts have witnessed DSL Rings technology working under their conditions.

    Has your technology been tested or validated by any telco service providers?

    DSL Rings has been demonstrated to the network engineers of two major European incumbent telecom providers in their test labs. Engineers from both organisations have verified that DSL Rings technology works as described.

    Why are telcos going ahead with fibre?

    Before DSL Rings, there was no economically viable fibre alternative to providing the bandwidth demanded by consumers of telcos.

    Is re-using the existing copper infrastructure a long term solution?
    Yes. Telcos have over a trillion dollars of copper infrastructure that still has substantial physical and usable life remaining. By utilising DSL Rings technologies telcos also extend its economic life.

    What are the options for deploying fibre with DSL Rings?
    If fibre is deployed to the PCP or Cabinet, which is still much cheaper than deploying fibre all the way to the home, the Internet traffic still goes over the copper wires to the house. Depending on the length of those wires the bandwidth achieved will still be one tenth of what can be provided in conjunction with DSL Rings. To clarify, DSL Rings can be deployed in conjunction with FTTCabinet to achieve up to 400 Mb/s to the consumer.

    Why was this concept not thought of before?
    There is no specific reason that this technology hasn’t been previously considered. Genesis has used three existing technologies and combined them in a new and innovative way that the telecom industry had not considered.