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ABI Research: Multi-Dwelling Units Provide Major Opportunity for Urban DSL Deployment in North America.

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Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs) in large North American cities will provide a significant market opportunity for telcos offering DSL-based broadband services, according to a new study from ABI Research.

MDUs - apartment buildings and other large residential blocks - in densely-populated European and Asian cities have been provided with triple-play services over fiber and DSL networks for some time. But North America, with its sprawling suburbs and rural regions, has so far seen less interest in triple-play broadband MDU solutions.

ABI reports that the trend is starting to change, however, as companies such as Verizon, with a coverage area that includes New York, Boston, and Washington DC, see an opportunity to offer video services to affluent, high-value urban customers via a combination of fiber and VDSL2.

"VDSL2 is a good way for telcos to deliver voice, video, and high-speed data services," said principal analyst Michael Arden, "but it is only viable over short runs of copper wire. Delivering services to the basement of a large building via fiber, and then on to individual dwellings over short lengths of copper, creates a huge potential. They could make real inroads into cable operators' markets."

This also presents a new opportunity for some companies providing equipment to the $3 billion global DSL market. "Many companies that have supplied RBOCs in the ...

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