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Over the past few years, there has been a substantial increase in the use of the Internet and its numerous applications by an ever swelling and ever more demanding residential user community. The widespread adoption of the Internet among non business/corporate users has been powered by the emergence of low-cost high-speed residential broadband access and the great popularity of a number of related high-end.

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Today ADSL2+ can be considered a mature technology as more and more ADSL2+ chipsets are developed and marketed by the leading manufacturers, including Globespan, Broadcom, and others.

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The ADSL2+ technology was specifically designed to offer almost three times the downstream rate offered by ADSL, as well as a substantially increased upstream rate. At the same time, backward compatibility with existing customer premised equipments, providing reduced-speed connectivity, was also a prime concern in formulating the new standard.

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Recent reports on market trends indicate that half the households in the United States intend to subscribe to next-generation broadband access in the immediate future, marking a shift to data rates in the range between 20Mbps to 100Mbps, as Seals (2006) states.