The company building our broadband network is at it again, extolling the virtues of making data flow more quickly over existing copper lines rather than installing FttP connections.
Nokia says fixed networks will play a key role in achieving network transformation and true convergence with 5G mobile and IoT.
NBN Co has flagged it could deploy ultra-fast G.Fast or XG.Fast technology to underpin the rollout of its fibre to the curb (FttC) network to 700,000 premises, just as a new report by Ovum predicts an explosion in use of the new technologies worldwide over the next five years.
NBN Co and Nokia are looking at XG.Fast technology paired with FttDP, with trial speeds delivering from 5Gbps to lab results of 8Gbps over twisted pair copper lines.