The Broadband Forum's G.fast certification program has offered up more testing schedule and testing details for G.fast, a standard many hope will be able to deliver 1 Gbps speeds over copper lines. At the Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam this week, it was announced that the University of New Hampshire InterOperablity Laboratory (UNH-IOL) will be the first and only testing lab for the Broadband Forum's G.fast certification program.
The 1 Gbps offered by G.fast would provide significantly faster speeds than VDSL, though it would be restricted to shorter loop lengths of around 820 feet, something that, alongside ISP resistance to spend money on upgrades, has historically limited the usefulness of vectoring and crosstalk-reduction DSL advancements of this type.
Still, there's a lot of markets around the world where fiber or coaxial infrastructure simply doesn't exist, making this an advancement of particular note and worth.
Broadcom, China-based Triductor Technology and Israeli startup Sckipio all demostrated their G.fast chipsets at the Broadband World Forum this week, though commercial products aren't expected to be available until sometime in 2016.
"This is just the beginning," promises Sckipio CEO David Baum. "We will deliver even higher rates over longer distances in the very near future."