Alcatel-Lucent and Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) have successfully completed a trial of the new G.fast technology to identify how it can evolve its network to meet future needs for ultra-broadband access. The trial –conducted over the past month – demonstrated how G.fast can complement NBN’s existing multi-technology deployment toolkit, offering a range of opportunities to evolve its capabilities.
Alcatel-Lucent’s G.fast technology uses copper infrastructure that extends the last few hundred meters into the premises to achieve speeds of close to 1 Gigabit per second. G.fast eliminates the need to rewire premises, which can be a costly and time-consuming part of any fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployment.
NBN aims to provide affordable ultra-broadband download speeds of at least 25 megabits per second (Mbps) to eight million premises and at least 50 Mbps to 90 percent of premises with fixed-line access by 2020.
Tony Cross, Chief Architect of nbn
This is fantastic news for our end-users as G.Fast can deliver exciting new services such as symmetrical speeds which will offer new possibilities for both residential and commercial end-users.
Sean O’Halloran, President and Managing Director, Alcatel-Lucent Oceania
As a leader in fixed ultra-broadband access we can offer operators a mix of fiber and copper technologies that they can use to deploy broadband more quickly and cost-effectively, while planning for the future. This trial represents a growing momentum as more service providers recognize the potential of G.fast.
