Leading global IC company Realtek has announced its enhanced Gigabit to the home over copper twisted pair and coax at a tech conference in Indonesia this week.
Alcatel-Lucent has successfully completed a trial of its G.fast technology for the National Broadband Network.
Huawei has demonstrated that it can deliver 1gbps (gigabit per second) symmetrical speeds over hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) cables used by cable pay TV operators worldwide.
In news that will be music to the ears of staunch NBN opponent and fibre to the node advocate, shadow communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, Huawei claims to have developed technology that deliver 1Gbps over a distance of 100 metres of copper telephone lines.