Negative broadband growth trends at Windstream will improve this year as the result of the higher broadband speeds the company is making available, said Windstream CEO Tony Thomas yesterday. Thomas made his comments at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media…
Broadband component manufacturer Sckipio Technologies hopes its new chip announced today will help telcos better compete with cable companies by enabling G.fast bandwidth to be dynamically allocated between the upstream and downstream paths. G.fast technology originally was developed to support…
Carriers worldwide could soon benefit from G.fast research conducted by British Telecom that could boost the performance of the broadband technology by a factor of two, said Adtran Head of Strategic Solutions Marketing Kurt Raaflaub in an interview yesterday. Modifications…
Broadband Forum on November 23 announced it has completed development of new network-edge fiber-to-the-distribution-point (FTTdp) management technology at its latest quarterly meeting in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Broadband Forum members approved the release of the FTTdp YANG management model, which will…
A variation on the telco industry’s G.fast ultra-fast broadband technology, XG.FAST has surpassed expectations in early lab tests at BT’s global R&D campus at Adastral Park and Alcatel-Lucent’s labs in Antwerp, Belgium. BT and Alcatel Lucent R&D teams sent and…
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is putting its testing and certification resources behind the push to advance the G.fast ¨ultra-fast¨ broadband standard, the organization announced at the Broadband World Forum in London October 20. Earlier this year,…
A new ultra-fast broadband technical specification developed by the Broadband Forum promises to accelerate and otherwise enhance the ability of service providers to roll out next-generation broadband connectivity. The new tech spec enhances copper-based G.fast and VDSL2, which will open…
G.fast technology promises to deliver ultra-broadband capabilities over existing copper infrastructure to the home and business. The explosion in video consumption, particularly OTT video delivered in a unicast fashion to individual subscribers, is helping make the case for telcos to…
The Broadband Forum on June 16 announced the completion of the world’s first G.fast equipment plugfest. Fourteen G.fast chipset and equipment manufacturers participated in the event, which took place in early June at the authorized G.fast testing/certification facilities at the…
It’s time to add another acronym to the telecom lexicon: CORD, for “central office re-architected as data center.” The idea behind CORD is to use software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) to “transform . . . carrier…
G.fast is a more promising technology than originally expected, said BT Wholesale executive Colin Bannon at the Big Telecom Event in Chicago yesterday. Manufacturers have targeted G.fast to support speeds of about 500 Mbps over copper phone wiring over a…
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