Verizon Testing Ten Gigabit Broadband Internet Service Verizon today announced the telco is testing new network technology that could someday pave the way for ten gigabit broadband Internet service. According to the company, it successfully was able to deliver ten gigabits per second using next-generation passive optical (NG-PON2) fiber-to-the-premises technology. The bits were delivered from a Verizon central office in Framingham, Massachusetts, to a local residence and a local business FiOS customer.

The new NG-PON2 technology will have the system capacity to grow to 40-80 Gbps as the market demands, according to Verizon VP of technology Lee Hicks. These higher speeds are made possible by adding new colors of light onto the existing fiber, each augmenting the capacity by up to 10 Gbps. The tests required a new optical line terminal (OLT) installed at the Verizon central office, which generated four wavelengths, each capable of operating at 10 Gbps down, 2.5Gbps upstream. One test transmitted the NG-PON2 signals over a fiber serving live GPON customers proving that the network can simultaneously deliver GPON and NG-PON2 on the same fiber. The telco says that based on the success of these tests, the company will issue an RFP for NG-PON2 vendor equipment later this year. There's no word on when these faster speeds would be made available to consumers -- and at what price. Verizon has yet to match speeds of 1 Gbps, though last year stated they didn't think customers needed that kind of speed. Verizon's announcement comes on the heels of Comcast's claim it will be offering 2 Gbps service to 18 million users before the end of the year (though it will cost $300 a month with a $1000 install fee, and we've yet to see any customers successfully connected). While Verizon's likely to offer a 1 or 2 Gbps service sometime soon, these latest 10 gigabit fiber broadband tests are to simply show the company's prepared to scale to customer demand. »www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· t2OJHdEs







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Zenit

The system is the solution

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join:2012-05-07

Purcellville, VA 19 recommendations Zenit Premium Member So... The CO's that got upgraded to GPON will eventually, someday, get this. Nice.

So what about the CO's that have not even been hit with ADSL yet?



What use is 10Gigabit internet today for anyone but a huge enterprise? This is a interesting waste of money. BiggA

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Central CT 12 recommendations BiggA Premium Member What a Joke They haven't even rolled out gigabit internet, and they've had the technology to do gigabit in place for years now. dogo88

join:2001-09-24

Old Bridge, NJ 9 recommendations dogo88 Member Who cares? Since FIOS expansion is closed, who cares?

Modus

I hate smartassery on forums

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us 9 recommendations Modus Premium Member sold to frontier assets If they sold all or most of the FIOS assets to Frontier why are they testing this? PowerfulOwl

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La Mirada, CA 5 recommendations PowerfulOwl Member Wow!!! I wish I could get that, but because Verizon is selling off their FiOS assets to Frontier in CA (where I live), TX, FL, It's not likely to happen for these 3 FiOS states. VicHighway

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Hopedale, MA 4 recommendations VicHighway Member Nice, but... How about IPV6 sometime this century? tmc8080

join:2004-04-24

Brooklyn, NY 3 recommendations tmc8080 Member sprinkle hope with delays why don't you... Verizon is just trying to thumb their nose at the news that they got the Cablevision ads blocked from the airwaves... testing faster gpons for Verizon is like testing 5g wireless cell site equipment....



What they are really offering is nothing.. they are sprinkling down hope with delays, and if it ever arrives will be far too costly for residential customers. If anybody's thinking they'll drop 10 gigabit service during the LIFETIME of docsis 3.1, I've got a bridge to sell you... pittpete1

join:2009-06-12 3 recommendations pittpete1 Member Wait im confused Not wireless?

Ahhh, once Verizon is finished destroying its union workforce then it will pickup the fiber expansion...

More $$$ for upper execs because prices will never go down..LOL shmerl

join:2013-10-21 3 recommendations shmerl Member It's all a pipe dream If they don't offer even 1Gbps for sane prices yet. So for how much will they offer 10Gbps? For $1000/month?