Verizon says it has tested 10Gbps broadband service with a residential customer in Massachusetts, using new technology that will let its FiOS fiber-to-the-premises network scale up to 80Gbps "as the market demands."
FiOS residential speeds go up to 500Mbps downstream and upstream today. Verizon's fiber network will eventually get a huge upgrade with NG-PON2 (next generation passive optical network) equipment. Field testing of NG-PON2 equipment from Cisco and PT Inovação "was completed recently from Verizon’s central office in Framingham, Mass., to a FiOS customer’s home three miles away as well as to a nearby business location. This followed extensive testing in Verizon’s laboratories in Waltham, Mass.," Verizon said in its announcement yesterday.
With NG-PON2, providers can boost capacity "by simply adding new colors of light onto the existing fiber, each augmenting the capacity by up to 10Gbps," Verizon said. The announcement continued:
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