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The multi-dwelling units you're referring to where Verizon uses VDSL is going to be locations where Verizon is not allowed to access the individual units and instead has to place a box that will serve 8 - 16 customers out of a single box. In cases where the apartment had CAT-5 wiring dedicated for data back to the equipment closets they can use Ethernet instead of VDSL. However if there's only one set of twisted-pair in the building going to each unit, they have to use VDSL. In order to put data on the coax cable you have to use a technology called MOCA. There are two limitations with this technology that make it impossible to utilize a MOCA-based box in this setting. Wiring architecture as well as bandwidth. Most coax wiring is not home-run, it is loop-through which means the distance limitations will kill your data speeds especially at the end of a chain of units in an apartment. Remember also the coax is shared between units via a splitter network (sometimes referred to as video tap network) which makes the bandwidth unachievable to each unit.