Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) business unit in Panama, Cable & Wireless Panama and Huawei, announced the first successful trial of the G.fast technology, reaching 500Mbps download speeds over copper lines. The trial will enable the largest telecom service provider in the country to provide high speed broadband service across Latin America leveraging existing copper infrastructure. The G.fast technology trial ran for two months in Panama deploying Huawei's latest multi-service access node equipment.
The G.fast technology is based on the Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) method with an improved algorithm that cancels the noise in the lines, reducing the effects of crosstalk and allowing transmission of higher rates of bits with a better quality, increasing the speeds of the information transmitted.
Stephen Ma, CEO of Huawei for the Caribbean
G.fast is the right way to extend the existing fixed line infrastructure to the gigabit access era by accelerating a future oriented ultra-broadband solution with unparalleled user experiences.
Carlo Alloni, EVP Technology and Group CTIO, Cable & Wireless Communications
We are thrilled to announce that Cable & Wireless Panama was the first market across Latin America to have successfully completed testing of the G.fast technology..
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