Press release: G.fast broadband standard approved and on the market
Compliant chips and equipment in the hands of service providers Geneva, 05 December 2014 – ITU members today achieved final approval of G.fast, the new ITU broadband standard designed to deliver access speeds of up to 1Gbit/s over existing telephone wires. The…
ITU Blog: Is Copper the Future of Fibre? G.fast and the battle of bandwidth
Attendees at the recent Fixed Access Networks Summit in Berlin contributed to a lively conference. In focus was the upcoming and innovative ITU-T G.fast standard and its potential, in unison with vectoring techniques, to inject new life into existing telephone…
New ITU broadband standard fast-tracks route to 1Gbit/s
G.fast capitalizes on existing copper to deliver fibre speeds at lower costs Geneva, 11 December, 2013 – ITU membership has reached first-stage approval of G.fast, the new ITU broadband standard capable of achieving access speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s over…