ADTRAN confirmed that it has G.fast ultra-broadband trials underway with service providers in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
The company said G.fast is moving beyond a technology concept toward a commercial reality
“G.fast FTTdp is an ideal solution to offer ultrafast broadband speeds to our customers, reducing installation impacts and costs of FTTH,” said Andrea Calvi, responsible for IP Networks, at Telecom Italia. “We were pleased to have had ADTRAN demonstrate a real-world FTTdp solution based on the G.fast standard.”
“The breadth and geographical reach of our G.fast trials demonstrates the market’s appetite for this technology, as operators look to push toward Gigabit speeds in evolutionary steps with rapid ROI,” said Dr. Eduard Scheiterer, senior vice president and managing director, international markets for ADTRAN. “We expect many of these progressive operators to begin finalizing their G.fast rollout strategies and procedures in readiness for the general availability of commercial G.fast solutions in 2015.”
