With the 25G PON answer, Google Fiber can present as much as 10x sooner broadband speeds, says Nokia
Google Fiber is deploying Nokia’s 25G passive optical community (PON) answer to bolster its current fiber community and ship a brand new 20 Gig broadband service by means of its GFiber Labs, an innovation hub centered on enhancing house web. Based on Nokia, with its 25G PON answer, Google Fiber can present broadband speeds which might be as much as 10x sooner than most different fiber networks.
“With our 25G PON answer Google Fiber can reuse its current fiber community to shortly and affordably ship the following technology of gigabit providers to their prospects. We’re proud to proceed supporting Google Fiber on its quest to construct the inspiration of tomorrow’s web,” commented Geert Heyninck, normal supervisor of broadband networks at Nokia.
The Finnish vendor introduced its 25G PON starter equipment answer final yr, and first trialed the know-how initially of this yr with Spanish operator Telefonica, reaching symmetric speeds of 20 Gbps. Telefonica, on the time, had fiber deployed to virtually 60 million houses throughout its enterprise items, and the trial validated that present GPON and XGS-PON broadband applied sciences can co-exist on the identical fiber with the 25G PON.
Quick broadband is critical to help the superior purposes like AR/VR and cybersecurity which might be turning into extra widespread within the house and at enterprise of all sizes.
As a part of the 25G PON implementation, GFiber has additionally launched Nokia’s Lightspan and Altiplano answer, which will increase service agility with operational effectivity. The fiber entry node helps a number of fiber applied sciences together with GPON, XGS-PON, 25GS-PON and Level-to-Level Ethernet to ship a variety of providers.
At present, GFiber Labs makes use of the 25G PON know-how to help UMKC and United Manner of Utah County. Residential prospects will get entry to the brand new service by the top of the yr, the businesses added.
“The age of multi-gig broadband providers is right here and we’re dedicated to making sure all of our prospects can profit from the unimaginable potential it brings,” stated Liz Hsu, senior director of product & billing at Google Fiber. “We imagine investments in superior community applied sciences like Nokia’s 25G PON answer will assist catalyze change, drive innovation and revolutionize the consumer expertise.”
