Verizons FIOS service is the most technologically advanced home internet service available. And they announced today they’re working on the next generation standard – increasing the raw throughput speed from 2.4Gbps to 10Gbps.
One of the most interesting features of the new XG-PON technical specification is that the frequencies that the 10Gb/s steam uses can be used simultaneously with the 2.4Gb/s stream, increasing total bandwidth to 12.5Gb/s.
Verizon also uses three different strands when they wire a house for FIOS – one for TV (they broadcast all channels all the time rather than using a multicast IPTV solution), one for internet, and one for phone.
Moving to XG-PON could increase consumer speeds up to five times their current speeds. The current top speed is 100Mb/s, and if the user speeds scale with total available speeds, could we see half-a-gigabit connection speeds? What would the average person even do with 500Mb/s? More importantly, I don’t think there are a whole lot of servers out there that could provide speeds that fast.
The specification is scheduled to be finalized in mid-2010, with an unknown rollout date. All of a sudden, the top speed of 160Mb/s from DOCSIS 3.0 doesn’t seem so fast.
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