It’s unlike we’re holding Verizon to its word or anything, but the company purportedly decided to shelve all future FiOS rollout plans back in March. Since then, however, Big Red has been talking up its fiber-based services, leaving us to wonder why it’d put a stop to laying more of it. Whatever the case, the company is now gloating about hitting ” near Gigabit-per-second” speeds on the prevailing FiOS GPON platform. For people that aren’t as technically savvy, that implies that FiOS can essentially saturate your Gigabit Ethernet jack, and if things got much faster, you’d want a port that’s not even available on consumer machines to deal with the extra bits. The nitty-gritty details of the test are just past the break, but the long and in need of it’s miles this — Verizon saw speeds of 925Mbps to a neighborhood server and over 800Mbps to a regional speed test server located some 400 miles away. Better still, this black magic was all done with very little magic at all, requiring just minor tweaks to the system so one can uncap all types of extra headroom. Meanwhile, your YouTube upload is being capped by Time Warner Cable at 44Kbps. Awesome.
Test Shows Current FiOS Network Offers Bandwidth Headroom to fulfill Emerging Business and Consumer Needs
WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon has completed a field trial within which it delivered approximately 1 gigabit-per-second bandwidth to a customer on the currently deployed gigabit passive optical network in a live production FiOS network setting. This type of capacity and versatility will enable Verizon to house a wide selection of latest and emerging consumer and business services reminiscent of 3DTV, desktop virtualization and remote storage, in addition as wireless backhaul for the following generation of wireless technologies.
Verizon’s GPON platform supports a total throughput of 2.4 Gbps downstream and 1.2 Gbps upstream to customers connected to the PON. This test successfully demonstrated the power to serve customers on the FiOS network with Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) service.
The newest field trial was conducted in June in Taunton, using an existing GPON system developed by Motorola, a current supplier to Verizon of both BPON (broadband passive optical network) and GPON equipment. The trial, conducted at an existing FiOS business customer location, was intended to demonstrate in a live network setting that currently deployed FiOS equipment can support higher bandwidth services and might deliver 1 Gbps without major change to the network.
” This sort of bandwidth capacity will provide Verizon the flexibility to continue to satisfy FiOS customers’ needs by offering more bandwidth to support services which includes 3DTV, ultra HDTV, multiplayer gaming and HD video conferencing,” said Brian Whitton, executive director of Verizon’s technology group.
The test involved bringing a new fiber connection from an existing operating GPON system at the company’s Taunton call-switching office to a second optical network terminal (ONT) located at the business customer’s facility. The second ONT was provisioned for the most recent 1 Gbps service tier, and the rate was tested to an area speed test server over an optimized route, in addition as across the public Internet to a regional speed test server located more than 400 miles away.
The throughput speeds were measured at 925 Mbps (megabits per second) to an area server and more than 800 Mbps to the regional test speed servers. The client’s existing FiOS service was left in place, and showed no degradation within the voice, data or video services during this trial.
” This trial demonstrated that the current architecture has sufficient headroom to allow for a progressive increase in capacity as needed by our residential and business customers on our current GPON platform, and validates our decision to support both residential and business services on a similar platform,” said Vincent O’Byrne, director of Verizon’s technology organization, who managed the trial.
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