Check is the primary demonstration of 50G PON in a stay community within the U.S., Nokia says
Nokia and Google’s GFiber Labs have achieved 50 Gbps broadband speeds over an current fiber community, utilizing Nokia’s 50G Passive Optical Networking (PON) expertise.
PON is a approach of offering broadband providers over a fiberoptic community, and as described by Nokia, makes use of a fiber feeder which is cut up to attach a number of customers (versus point-to-point, which depends on a devoted fiber for every person). PON, in accordance with the distributors is “higher suited to large broadband connectivity” and has a extra in depth ecosystem.
Nokia and Google Fiber examined 25G PON final 12 months and Google Fiber has since launched the primary 25G PON business providers utilizing Nokia’s options; the newest trial builds upon their earlier work.
Nokia stated that the present work on 25G PON amongst fiber community operators around the globe, lays the groundwork for future PON upgrades. It notes that it has 10G and 25G PON merchandise obtainable in the present day, is supporting 50G trials and is demonstrating 100G PON expertise.
Within the case of Google Fiber, the fiber community supplier was capable of concurrently run 10/25G PON and 25/50G PON broadband providers on its fiber community, in accordance with Nokia—which added in a press launch that “As soon as the 50G PON business matures, the step to 100G is simple.”
“We’re at all times on the lookout for methods to push the capabilities of our fiber community to ship the very best expertise to our clients,” stated Liz Hsu, Google Fiber’s senior director of product and billing. “This check with Nokia builds on the 25G PON deployment we introduced collectively final 12 months, paving the best way for future enhancements to our community that improve buyer expertise when it comes to velocity, reliability, innovation and help for future enterprise instances which have but to be outlined.”
Nokia stated that the trial with Google Fiber is its second 50G PON trial previously 4 months on a world foundation, along with being the primary one in the US. The community vendor stated that there are greater than a dozen fiber community suppliers around the globe who’re deploying 25G PON, together with Vodafone Qatar, Ogi in Wales and EPB of Chattanooga along with Google Fiber.