“If you’re still waiting for your ISP to announce when it will bring fibre to your premises and you suspect ‘sometime the otherside of never’ is the answer, take heart,” Jo Best reports for ZDNet. “You may already have the line needed to deliver 1Gbps to your home or office already in place.”
“Copper networks went into the ground in some countries over 100 years ago, and were more recently the first networks used to deliver broadband to customers. However, copper was also viewed as a technology dead end: only capable of offering tens of megabits per second, it was just a staging post until fibre to the premises (FTTP) replacements could be installed, bringing broadband speeds into the hundreds of megabits per second and beyond,” Best reports. “That was, of course, until G.fast came along.”
“G.fast is a new-minted standard being explored by operators in Europe, Australia, Asia, and beyond, as a means of offering fibre-like speeds over those creaking copper wires,” Best reports. “Using the existing copper infrastructure, G.fast can offer a 1Gbps downlink over 20m copper loop, and several hundreds megabits per second over hundreds of metres.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Salvation for millions upon millions of users may be at hand!