APPLICATIONS
The G.fast standard is designed to solve many problems for service providers.
Fiber-to-the-distribution-point (FTTdp)
No customer has ever claimed they have too much bandwidth. The opposite is clearly true - there is tremendous demand for broadband and this demand will continue well into the future. Nielsen's Law predicts bandwidth will grow 57x in the next decade. The question is how will telco's afford to deliver such performance economically?
Today’s architecture and technology is too expensive for Telcos to economically utilize. Traditional FTTH is simply unaffordable and impractical. It takes longer than 10 years to reach a positive ROI for FTTH and the time it takes to roll out such services will allow massive shifts in market share away from telcos.
Fortunately, a new ultra-high speed broadband architecture has emerged that will save telcos as much as $500 billion and help them cut the time to positive ROI in half or even greater. That new approach is a hybrid fiber/G.fast approach where fiber is brought to the distribution point and then G.fast is used to deliver ultra-high speed broadband from the distribution point to the home using the existing copper wiring.
​
Telcos using G.fast technology as an alternative path to deploying Fiber-To-The-Home will increase telco take rates, reduce costs per subscriber by as much as 90% and eliminate the need for professional installers and in-home installations. Finally, no more trenches.
Mobile Backhaul
As congestion on mobile towers grows, the need to off-load traffic to smaller and smaller cells becomes increasingly important. Microcells and picocells are excellent technologies to deliver the tower capabilities. Yet, backhauling the traffic from the microcell or picocell then becomes the bottleneck. This is where G.fast comes in. With G.fast, it is possible to leverage the existing copper wiring inside a home or building and achieve high upstream performance – all at a very low cost to deploy.
Mobile backhaul is particularly relevant for MDU environments where running fiber inside the building is so problematic.
Multi-Dwelling Units (MDU)
For most service providers, MDU environments are a big challenge. In many apartment buildings, it is too expensive to drop fiber all the way to the end dwelling. Dealing with right-of-way issues, regulatory issues, take rate issues and more make MDUs problematic at best.
A better approach is to use the existing copper wiring. This allows for a faster ROI and lower initial capitalization. Plus, it avoids potential regulatory issues regarding where the demarcation exists between the service provider and the property owner.
G.fast is the perfect solution because it combines state-of-the-art noise cancelling vectoring as well as the highest bandwidth to deliver the lowest cost per Mbps delivered.
Used with Permission Ben Ostrowsky​
Used with Permission Robert Scoble
Used with Permission Kenny Holston
