Verizon tests 10 gigabit Broadband FiOS
Verizon announced today that they are the first company to successfully field test 10 gigabit XG-PON technology on their Fiber to the Home (FTTH) broadband infrastructure. XG-PON is capable of 10 gigabits downstream and 2.4 gigabits upstream. For a little background, Verizon’s FTTH technology (branded as FiOS) started off using BPON technology which was limited to 622 Mbps downstream and 155 Mbps upstream. Verizon recently began deploying GPON technology over their FTTH network which supports 2400 Mbps downstream and 1200 Mbps upstream.
Note that all of these quoted speeds are shared between a maximum of 32 homes, though even BPON is still an awful lot of bandwidth to share between 32 homes compared to any other technology. 32 homes is also the worst case assuming 100% uptake, and realistically we’re looking at a typical 30% uptake which is usually around 10 homes hooked up on the same fiber node.
It’s also worth nothing that we have only scratched the surface in terms of how much theoretical capacity is on those fibers. It’s only a question of developing faster cost-effective fiber optic transceivers that convert electrical signals to optical signals in the future, and XG-PON is just the next stage of this progression.
So, even with some division of resources we are talking GB to home. And let’s say the hub is fully loaded. We are still talking about possibly 300MBps shared even fully loaded.
I don’t even want to consider what infrastructure would be required to supply that. I know some companies that are working to get GB infrastructure in place and now we have FTTH at 10GB theoretical Max.
Wow, just Wow.
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