[AusNOG] 700Mbps over copper pair...over 400 metres

[Kai]

Huawei has showcased, in Hong Kong what it claims is the world's first technology able to deliver 700Mbps over copper pair phone lines.
itwire.com/business-it-news/technology/42025-huawei-squeezes-700mbps-from-dsl

I got semi excited about this until I read the first paragraph:
"Huawei says its 'SuperMIMO' technology uses four twisted pairs to achieve a downstream rate of 700Mbps at a distance of 400 metres."

I'm guessing that was tested on "perfect copper" at 400 metres, and not the stuff that's sitting in the pits and up the columns around Aus, dealing with constant temperature and humidity variations, at various stages of decay and after being repatched and respliced a few hundred times.