Alcatel-Lucent to introduce broadband G.fast solution in Q1 2015

Telecom network vendor Alcatel-Lucent on Tuesday said it would introduce broadband G.fast solution in the first quarter of 2015.

During the trial with Telekom Austria, a regular subscriber was connected in order to independently test G.fast in the field.

Alcatel-Lucent did not share the outcome of the trial.

One year back, Alcatel-Lucent and A1 achieved speeds of 1.1 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) during the first laboratory trial of G.fast with vectoring.

Alcatel-Lucent is conducting 12 trials with mobile operators, including A1, a subsidiary of Telekom Austria. The company has also conducted broadband G.fast solution trial with telecoms such as BT and Orange.

Alcatel-Lucent, at the Broadband World Forum 2014, Amsterdam, said the high speed broadband solution will allow telecom operators to place fiber access closer to subscribers’ homes and offer faster Internet services to address demand for data and video.

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Hannes Ametsreiter, CEO of A1 and Telekom Austria Group, said: “We were the first to trial G.fast using vectoring technology with Alcatel-Lucent a little over a year ago and we are pleased to take the lead with them again by demonstrating the first customer connection using G.fast.”

The new 7368 ISAM single-port G.fast Optical Network Terminal (ONT) accelerates the availability of fiber-like speeds without the need for operators to bring fiber into the premises during fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployment.

Instead, fiber can be drawn close to the home and G.fast used to deliver speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) over the existing telephone line into the premises.  Alcatel-Lucent’s G.fast ONT can also be deployed in a multiple-dwelling unit, with one ONT serving each household.

Customer trials use a multi-port G.fast solution using vectoring technology to eliminate the cross-talk interference that occurs when two or more copper lines are in close proximity, which adversely affects speeds.

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