BROWSING: G.fast

AT&T tapping G.fast to boost broadband in multiple-dwelling units While the long-term movement in Tier 1 carrier networks is toward more and more fiber, many service providers maintain copper coaxial cable networks, which can be upgraded to provide increasingly fast broadband speeds. Particularly in the...

AT&T this week expanded the reach of its home broadband services with a combination of new fiber deployment and leveraging G.fast to improve data speeds in multiple-dwelling units using existing coaxial cabling. Residents in Biloxi, Miss., and Savannah, Ga., now have access to AT&T's fiber...

Japanese firm EneCom will distribute Nokia G.fast fixed ultra-broadband access technology. Nokia signed a distributor agreement with Energia Communications to sell its G.fast fixed broadband access technology in Japan. G.fast is designed to deliver fiber-like speeds over copper cable over short...

Looking to extend the reach of high-speed fiber Internet service, the city of Santa Cruz, California, along with a technology partner and the local Internet service provider Cruzio, is using millimeter wave radios to provide wireless gigabit Internet service. Millimeter wave spectrum is expected to...

The UK telco is collaborating with US firm Cavium on G.fast tests UK telecoms operator BT has successfully used G.fast technology to deliver a Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) cellular network service over copper, the telco said in a statement. C-RAN is a network architecture used...

LAS VEGAS – Broadband Forum Chairman Kevin Foster told opening day attendees at CES 2016 the G.fast technology is key to quickly delivering innovative new services that require lots of bandwidth. Foster, also GM for access and CPE innovation at BT, said 4K video, location-based services,...

Plans to beat government goal of extending fiber to 96% of population While 90% of UK residents already have access to fiber-based broadband Internet service, BT CEO Gavin Patterson this week laid out plans to continue pushing for what he called "Britain's digital future." Speaking at...

The new broadband technology will be commercially launched by the end of 2015 with carrier partner Chunghwa Telecom Alcatel-Lucent and Taiwanese telecom operator Chunghwa Telecom announced a plan to launch the world's first commercial deployment of G.fast ultra-broadband access technology, allowing the acceleration of "last...

The International Telecommunication Union has finalized approval of G.fast, the broadband standard designed to deliver 1 Gigabit per second broadband speeds over existing copper wires. G.fast is meant to be an alternative to fiber-to-the-home for service providers that want to deliver "triple play" services...