VDSL has been around for a few years and offers high-speed broadband over the existing telephone wiring. Although it operates over the room’s telephone line, it allows voice and data to be shared at the same time. That way the telephone is not tied up in the guest’s room, and more importantly to you, the hotel owner, it doesn’t clog up vital lines on your switchboard. VDSL is not limited to the speed of the phone line either, and can operate at speeds normally only seen on Ethernet local area networks.

All types of DSL technologies operate over the existing copper telephone cabling. They use higher frequencies over the copper wire to introduce data signals without interfering with the lower frequency voice signal. The speed achievable is dependent on the distance from the local exchanges and the quality of the copper wiring. This is why the availability of ADSL for telephone subscribers is dependent on how far away they are from the local telephone exchange. But VDSL does not have these restrictions. Since it operates only over the inbuilding wiring, it is not limited by distance as long as the wiring does not extend more than 1.5 kilometers.