Very high-speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) and very high-speed digital subscriber line 2 (VDSL2) are digital subscriber line (DSL) technologies providing data transmission faster than the earlier standards of asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) G.992.1, G.992.3 (ADSL2) and G.992.5 (ADSL2+).
A VDSL2 cabinet on top of a copper cabling cabinet in Italy.
A VDSL2 DSLAM Cabinet installed by PCCW in Pat Heung, Hong Kong.
An Openreach engineer works at a UK VDSL cabinet
Digital subscriber line is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines. In telecommunications marketing, the term DSL is widely understood to mean asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL), the most commonly installed DSL technology, for Internet access.
A DSL modem
Example of a DSLAM from 2006