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    The UK's G.fast Experiment Bureau ignites new hope for Australia's copper wire network

    • Last Update: 2022-11-17
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    On the outskirts of the eastern English city of Ipswich, patches of dwellings are built on manicured
    lawns.
    It's hard to connect a comfortable life to the future global high-speed broadband market, but it's here that British network operator Openreach opened the innovative G.
    fast High-Speed Broadband Experiment.

    G.
    fast is a broadband technology that uses high frequency bands to achieve ultra-high-speed data transmission on last-mile copper networks, which can help users of the Ipswich Experimental Bureau enjoy download speeds of 800 Mbit/s and upload speeds
    of 200 Mbit/s.
     
    The opening of the Openreach G.
    fast Experimental Bureau will have a profound impact
    on the global broadband market, especially Australia.
    If this lab can prove that operators can provide data speeds of 1 Gbit/s on existing networks, the need for fiber to the premise (FTTP) will become less urgent
    .
     
    This is a historic breakthrough for network operators, as G.
    fast technology potentially saves operators billions of dollars in capital expenditures
    in last-mile fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network construction.
     
    That's why operators across Europe are bullish on G.
    fast as an umbrella to make huge profits from copper networks, which were widely considered obsolete just a few years ago
    .
     
    In the UK, Openreach's next step in fibre to the node (FTTN) deployment is to cover 19 million homes via G.
    fast next April, with the ultimate goal
    of achieving a 67% market share in the UK.
    In Europe, the network design is often referred to as a fiber-to-the distribution point solution and is seen as the future of
    high-speed broadband.
    This avoids the huge investment and operational complexity
    of fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP).
     
    The future of broadband networks in Europe
     
    In the fiber-to-the-distribution (FTTDp) model, operators often need to connect home users with shorter fiber distances, which is about 100 meters for G.
    fast technology (although some operators deploy farther distances).

    Then connect a node in a human well, or on a pole, and use the existing copper wire to provide services to home users
    .
     
    At the Ipswich Experiment Bureau site, the network is designed so that Openreach can connect a single user home to provide full fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) services without having to close the only road
    to that home.
     
    At present, Openreach Experimental Bureau is still in its infancy, and the G.
    fast technology cannot be commercially deployed as the final standard technology, and it is expected that the technology will not be commercially deployed
    until 2015.
     
    Openreach has identified G.
    fast technology as an important part of its next-generation network technology, which allows Openreach to provide higher bandwidth capabilities
    in areas of high bandwidth demand.
     
    In Australia, executives from Telstra and NBNCo are continuing to keep an eye on Openreach's G.
    fast Experimentation as the new government's NBN network is likely to use the technology
    .
     
    Perhaps the most interesting thing about Openreach's G.
    fast experiment is not what happens outside the user's home, because G.
    fast easily achieves a data transfer speed of 1 Gbit/s, but what happens
    in the user's home.
    Although G.
    fast technology achieves uplink and downlink rates of 200 Mbit/s and 800 Mbit/s, if the user's fixed line passes through the home Wi-Fi network, the lab users can only enjoy the uplink and downlink rates of 20 Mbit/s and
    150 Mbit/s.
     
    According to Openreach officials, although the next generation of Wi-Fi modems will increase Wi-Fi home rates, users will later receive new services such as 4KTV through fixed-line transmission technology, such as HomePlug, so that users can actually enjoy ultra-high service access speeds
    .
     
    Note: Tony Brown is a senior analyst
    at Informa Infocom and Media Australia.
     

    On the outskirts of the eastern English city of Ipswich, patches of dwellings are built on manicured
    lawns.
    It's hard to connect a comfortable life to the future global high-speed broadband market, but it's here that British network operator Openreach opened the innovative G.
    fast High-Speed Broadband Experiment.

    G.
    fast is a broadband technology that uses high frequency bands to achieve ultra-high-speed data transmission on last-mile copper networks, which can help users of the Ipswich Experimental Bureau enjoy download speeds of 800 Mbit/s and upload speeds
    of 200 Mbit/s.
     
    The opening of the Openreach G.
    fast Experimental Bureau will have a profound impact
    on the global broadband market, especially Australia.
    If this lab can prove that operators can provide data speeds of 1 Gbit/s on existing networks, the need for fiber to the premise (FTTP) will become less urgent
    .
     
    This is a historic breakthrough for network operators, as G.
    fast technology potentially saves operators billions of dollars in capital expenditures
    in last-mile fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network construction.
     
    That's why operators across Europe are bullish on G.
    fast as an umbrella to make huge profits from copper networks, which were widely considered obsolete just a few years ago
    .
     
    In the UK, Openreach's next step in fibre to the node (FTTN) deployment is to cover 19 million homes via G.
    fast next April, with the ultimate goal
    of achieving a 67% market share in the UK.
    In Europe, the network design is often referred to as a fiber-to-the distribution point solution and is seen as the future of
    high-speed broadband.
    This avoids the huge investment and operational complexity
    of fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP).
     
    The future of broadband networks in Europe
     
    In the fiber-to-the-distribution (FTTDp) model, operators often need to connect home users with shorter fiber distances, which is about 100 meters for G.
    fast technology (although some operators deploy farther distances).

    Then connect a node in a human well, or on a pole, and use the existing copper wire to provide services to home users
    .
     
    At the Ipswich Experiment Bureau site, the network is designed so that Openreach can connect a single user home to provide full fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) services without having to close the only road
    to that home.
     
    At present, Openreach Experimental Bureau is still in its infancy, and the G.
    fast technology cannot be commercially deployed as the final standard technology, and it is expected that the technology will not be commercially deployed
    until 2015.
     
    Openreach has identified G.
    fast technology as an important part of its next-generation network technology, which allows Openreach to provide higher bandwidth capabilities
    in areas of high bandwidth demand.
     
    In Australia, executives from Telstra and NBNCo are continuing to keep an eye on Openreach's G.
    fast Experimentation as the new government's NBN network is likely to use the technology
    .
     
    Perhaps the most interesting thing about Openreach's G.
    fast experiment is not what happens outside the user's home, because G.
    fast easily achieves a data transfer speed of 1 Gbit/s, but what happens
    in the user's home.
    Although G.
    fast technology achieves uplink and downlink rates of 200 Mbit/s and 800 Mbit/s, if the user's fixed line passes through the home Wi-Fi network, the lab users can only enjoy the uplink and downlink rates of 20 Mbit/s and
    150 Mbit/s.
     
    According to Openreach officials, although the next generation of Wi-Fi modems will increase Wi-Fi home rates, users will later receive new services such as 4KTV through fixed-line transmission technology, such as HomePlug, so that users can actually enjoy ultra-high service access speeds
    .
     
    Note: Tony Brown is a senior analyst
    at Informa Infocom and Media Australia.
     
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