Verizon has announced that it reached almost 1 gigabit download speeds during a recent FiOS trial. A subscriber was able to attain throughput of 925Mbps with currently deployed equipment – barely shy of a gigabit, but still really fast.
The field test, conducted with a business subscriber in Massachusetts, showed that speeds fell further from the gigabit mark to 800Mbps when downloading from a more remote regional server, but was nonetheless able to demonstrate what’s capable with the fibre backbone Verizon already has in place. Still, considering this was a trial involving a single subscriber (out of FiOS’ existing millions), don’t expect these speeds to be available anytime soon. [Verizon FiOS]
Harry
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 7:28 AMAnd so how the heck is the labor government hoping to achieve this feat Australia wide with only 43 billion dollars?
JOedy
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 8:51 AMWe dont have 300 million people
Normandy
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 8:57 AMI thought tony said this was impossible… LOL
Hunted
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 10:44 AMNot so implausible now is it Tony? hahaha
aupablito
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 4:32 PMIt is possible, so long as you have only 1 customer on the GPON link, as was the case here.
Essentially, GPON is a single fibre where the traffic is split upto 128 points (homes/offices) where downstream (downloaded) traffic is broadcast to all users on a link an encryption handles the data splitting (imagine your bank account details being sent (encrypted) to 128 homes. uploads are handled with TDMA or Time division multiple access
Because all points on the fibre share the bandwidth -which starts out at Gigabit – is divided up, if we state that a fibre in Australia will support 32 points (homes) and each is using the link to it’s fullest, then you’ll get less than 32Megabits/s, if they get cheap (which they will, I bet) and go for 128 points per fibre, then you’ll be looking at 7.81Megabits/sec download.
Add the over head of 128bit encryption a 32Megabit link suddenly drops closer to 25Mb/s even worse if the fibre is split by 128 points.
No how possible does the 1Gb/s link sound when your sharing it with 32-128 more people who want to download hd youtube whist uploading HD webcam footage of their nasty genital regioned rash to the local GP?
Worse still, how does the risk of 1 router in a chain of 128 being compromised via a “side-attack” at the encryption and gathering your banking details?
Yes, 1Gb/s is possible, however, you’re gunna have to scare your neighbours into not downloading! (or cut their link in the chain)