How to upgrade cities to 40Gbps broadband without replacing today's fiber network Verizon will soon test communications gear that can provide next-generation 40Gbps fiber broadband services in America. Crucially, the hardware is compatible with today's fiber lines, meaning it can be deployed to massively boost speeds without the need to dig up and replace the miles of cables running underneath our cities …
What's left, at least. Everybody that isn't east coast already got flogged off!
I seriously doubt the idiots at CenturyLink are even going to invest a dime in their FiOS, so we'll probably never see this.
I heard rumors that all CenturyLink wanted was the copper plant to run VDSL2 on, but Vz made them take the whole enchilada.
<quote>Ready just in time for them to flog it off to someone else for a pretty penny?</quote>
They have already done that with some bad results:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-frontier-puc-verizon-switch-20160518-snap-story.html
http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/05/frontier-outages-persist-35-days-after-switch-from-verizon/
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/can-frontier-communications-get-over-its-fumbling-takeover-of-verizon-fios/2271934
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/frontier-isp-failure,31663.html
In Flori-duh Frontier took over back on April 1 (and the 'joke' was on the customers) and they still are having issues!!!
Crucially, the hardware is compatible with today's fiber lines, meaning it can be deployed to massively boost speeds without the need to dig up and replace the miles of cables running underneath our cities and towns.
Well, of course it's compatible with the current fiber plant. The termination equipment on both ends determines the speed, not the fiber type.
'Well, of course it's compatible with the current fiber plant. The termination equipment on both ends determines the speed, not the fiber type.'
And this being a technology site and all, I wonder how different are NG-PON2 photons from the old fashioned kind?
"The architecture will look to expand capacity by sending traffic over additional wavelengths ref
How, using different colored lasers and diffraction grating at the end to separate the signals. If so there is going to be cross talk and an upper limit to the maximum bit rate, so should that be up to 40 Gbps.
To do so, Verizon will look to implement NG-PON2 via Mosaic, a software-defined network (SDN) architecture that Adtran has developed for telco services. The architecture will look to expand capacity by sending traffic over additional wavelengths, extending the spectrum that can be used on existing fiber cables to push more data through.
So really they've "invented" WDM from 70s (ok, 80s by the time it was run in a lab) with a bit of tech du jour SDN cool-aid.
(Yes I do realise that NG-PON2 uses TDWM and tunable lasers at ONUs, but since when have facts stood in the way of a piss take)
PON is crap anyways, why bother with the lipstick on the pig? It's a dead end when it comes to offering anything more than fancy cable. With the abundance of cheap ethernet-over-fiber gear, it doesn't even make sense financially except for networks which were stupid enough to lock themselves into a PON topology from the start. If you did it right, or do it right now, you can run any speeds now and in the future by just swapping out the gear at both ends of the fiber pair (or single fiber strand for that matter).
